*3.6. Wave Storm Directionality*

Directional characteristics of wave conditions observed or simulated, both at outer and inner points of the archipelago, have been explored by elaborating wind and wave roses. This type of representation in polar coordinates allows an easy visualization of the directional distributions for characteristic wave heights and periods. In particular, the bivariate empirical distributions of the following pairs of characteristic wave parameters have been obtained, *θ<sup>m</sup>* − *Hm*0, *θ<sup>m</sup>* − *T*02*,* and *θ<sup>m</sup>* − *Tp*, for both the total dataset and the values associated with selected storms, at each of the selected points.
