There is a growing practical interest in the ability to increase the sea states at which marine
operations can be safely undertaken by exploiting the quiescent periods that are well known
to exist under a wide range of sea conditions. While the actual prediction of quiescent
periods at sea for the control of operations is a deterministic process, the long term planning
of future maritime tasks that rely on these quiescent periods is a statistical process involving
the anticipated quiescence properties of the forecasted sea conditions in the geographical …