This situation has motivated the present study which aimed at
producing a wave hindcast more specifically applicable to the North
Eastern Atlantic coasts of Europe. This work was integrated in a wider
effort developed in the framework of a European project in which a
hindcast analysis was made of 44 years of wind, sea level and wave
conditions (between 1958 and 2001), in all coastal European waters
(Guedes Soares et al., 2002).