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{{Short description|Statistically projected water wave}}A hundred-year wave is a statistically projected water wave, the height of which, on average, is met or exceeded once in a hundred years for a given location. The likelihood of this wave height being attained at least once in the hundred-year period is 63%.BOOK, Brooke, John, Engineering Committee on Oceanic Resources Working Group on Wave Energy Conversion, Wave Energy Conversion, Elsevier, 2003, 170, 0-08-044212-9,weblink 2008-09-09, As a projection of the most extreme wave which can be expected to occur in a given body of water, the hundred-year wave is a factor commonly taken into consideration by designers of oil platforms and other offshore structures.BOOK BOOK , p. 188.BOOK , Ch. 4. Periods of time other than a hundred years may also be taken into account, resulting in, for instance, a fifty-year wave.BOOK, Le Tirant, P., Jacques Meunier, Association de recherche en géotechnique marine (France), Nissim Marshall, Anchoring of Floating Structures: Design Guides for Offshore Structures, Editions TECHNIP, 1990, 50, 2-7108-0572-3,weblink 2008-09-09, Various methods are employed to predict the possible steepnessBOOK, Cruz, Joao, Ocean Wave Energy: Current Status and Future Perspectives, Springer, 2008, 16, 978-3-540-74894-6,weblink 2008-09-09, and periodBOOK, Editions Technip, Association De Recherche Action Des, Sea Climatology, Editions TECHNIP, 1980, 7, 2-7108-0396-8,weblink 2008-09-09, of these waves, in addition to their height.

See also

• Index of wave articles
• Significant wave height
• Shallow water equations
• Rogue wave

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