Recent developments of ocean environmental description with focus on uncertainties
Journal article, 2014

A review of the recent progress made regarding ocean environmental data and models with uncertainties in focus is given in the perspective of marine structures' design and operations. Uncertainties of wind, waves, current, sea water level and ice data and models are discussed and recent achievements leading to improvement of their accuracy are addressed. The study includes mathematical, probabilistic, empirical and statistical models. Particular attention is given to rogue waves. Challenges related to wind data and models due to the increase of offshore wind energy installations are presented focusing on wind forecast, information about the wind profile and extreme wind events. Attention is also given to ice which is of particular importance due to the projected climate changes opening new opportunities in the Arctic regions for the marine industry. Impacts of improved accuracy of environmental description on design and operations of ships and offshore structures are highlighted.

Design and operations of marine structures

Environmental data and models

Uncertainties

Author

E. M. Bitner-Gregersen

Det Norske Veritas (DNV)

S. K. Bhattacharya

University of Madras

I. K. Chatjigeorgiou

National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

I. Eames

University College London (UCL)

K. Ellermann

Technische Universität Graz

K. Ewans

G. Hermanski

National Research Council Canada

M. C. Johnson

Lloyd's Register

N. Ma

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

C. Maisondieu

IFREMER Centre de Brest

A. Nilva

Marine Engineering

Igor Rychlik

University of Gothenburg

Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Statistics

T. Waseda

University of Tokyo

Ocean Engineering

0029-8018 (ISSN)

Vol. 86 26-46

Modeling environmental loads and structural responses

Swedish Research Council (VR) (2012-6004), 2012-01-01 -- 2015-12-31.

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Marine Engineering

Probability Theory and Statistics

DOI

10.1016/j.oceaneng.2014.03.002

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