WAVE CHARACTERISTICS IN THE MAKRAN COASTS

Waves have the most important role among the phenomena governing the marine environment and are the main cause of coastal morphological changes and the forces imposed on marine structures. Hence, determining the characteristics of a wave in each coastal region is of great importance. So far, many studies have been done on specifying thewaves in the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, and the coast of Makran [1-5]. The results indicate that the waves of this area are most affected by the Monsoon winds. MonsoonWinds fall into two categories: Summer (SW) and Winter (NE) [6-8]. In general, the magnitude of the waves caused by the summer monsoon is higher. In this paper, the results of wave hindcast in the Makran coastline are presented. For this purpose, after validation and verification the model with the measurement data, Wave hindcast has been performed forthe period of 1980-2016. Finally, the study area is classified according to the maximum wave height in points at depths of 10 and 25 meters and wave height with areturn period of 50 and 100 years.