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
DNV GL AS
S. K. Bhattacharya
University of Madras
I. K. Chatjigeorgiou
National Technical University of Athens
I. Eames
UCL
K. Ellermann
Technische Universitat Graz
K. Ewans
G. Hermanski
NRC Canada
M. C. Johnson
Lloyd's Register EMEA
N. Ma
Shanghai Jiaotong University
C. Maisondieu
IFREMER Centre de Brest
A. Nilva
Marine Engineering Bureau
Igor Rychlik
University of Gothenburg
Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Statistics
T. Waseda
University of Tokyo
Ocean Engineering
0029-8018 (ISSN)
Vol. 86 26-46Modeling environmental loads and structural responses
Swedish Research Council (VR) (2012-6004), 2012-01-01 -- 2015-12-31.
Driving Forces
Sustainable development
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Marine Engineering
Probability Theory and Statistics
DOI
10.1016/j.oceaneng.2014.03.002