Abstract
In 2004, as many as 10 typhoons hit the Japanese Islands, and caused severe damage in many places all over Japan. Among them, especially six typhoons landed from August through October, i.e., the typhoon 0415, 0416, 0418, 0422, and 0423, caused extraordinary disaster due to waves along Japanese coast. These six typhoons have the different feature in the route, the central atmospheric pressure, and the radius. Accordingly, the occurrence wave characteristics due to each typhoon are different. The wave hindcasting is a useful measure to discuss the characteristics of the waves caused by the typhoon in large area. In this paper, we, therefore, apply the third generation wave model, WAM, for the six typhoons, and discuss the characteristics of the waves as well as the wave hindcasting accuracy with WAM.
