Windstorms and their effects on Maritime Transport in Tartous Governorate

Abstract

In this research, statistical analysis where made of daily, monthly, seasonal, and annual wind speeds for the period (2000-2019) of Tartous station, which represents the Tartous governorate. this station is the only sinop station located on the coast in the governorate.

 the results showed that number of windstorms days at the Tartous station was (655) day in the studied period, and the average number of windstorms days (32.3) day/year, the year (2003) is the year with the most frequency of wind storms with the number of (50) days, and the winter season is a season with the highest frequency, while January is the most frequent of this phenomenon, it was noted that the effect of wind storms increased on the coast of the governorate in direction from north to south, and the beaufort wind scale was

adopted to classify the intensity of wind storms (storm, severe storm, whole storm, violent storm, hurricane). The western side is the most frequent side for days of wind storms, the impact of which varied between the closing the ports and standing or sinking of some ships and small boats.