EXTREME VALUE AND RARE OCCURRENCE WAVE STATISTICS FOR NORTHERN HEMISPHERIC SHIPPING LANES

The existing ocean environment data bases, though much improved in recent years, are still inadequate in several respects. Sufficient information for the systematic, scientific design of new ships or the analysis of operational failures is lacking. Consequently, in 1975 the U.S. Navy initiated a project to remedy this deficiency by hindcasting and systematically collating available data collected over a 20-year period. The final product will be a new climatology of wind and waves for the Northern Hemisphere. Some initial results, concentrating on extreme and rare wave occurrences, are presented in this paper. The statistics offer substantially improved capability and are so presented as to facilitate adoption into existing procedures for analyzing performance and structural integrity.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • From the 1980 SNAME Spring Meeting and STAR Symposium, "Safety and the Marine Environment," held 3-7 June 1980 at the Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, California.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers

  601 Pavonia Avenue
  Jersey City, NJ  United States  07306-2907
• Authors:
  • Cummins, W E
  • Bales, S L
• Publication Date: 1980

Media Info

• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Climatology; Data management; Databases; Electromagnetic spectrum; Information processing; Performance; Seas; Ship operations; Statistics; Water waves; Waveform analysis; Waves
• Old TRIS Terms: Sea spectra; Ship performance; Wave climatology; Wave statistics
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Design; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00311128
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Session No. 15 Conf Paper
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 7 1980 12:00AM