Following the 13th International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting and 4th Coastal Hazards Symposium in October 2013 in Banff, Canada, a topical collection has appeared in recent issues of Ocean Dynamics. Here we give a brief overview of the history of the conference since its inception in 1986 and of the progress made in the fields of wind-generated ocean waves and the modelling of coastal hazards before we summarize the main results of the papers that have appeared in the topical collection.
@article{arxiv.1503.00847,
title = {The International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting and the Coastal Hazards Symposium},
author = {Øyvind Breivik and Val Swail and Alexander Babanin and Kevin Horsburgh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.00847},
year = {2015}
}