[HTML][HTML] Statistical modelling of the ocean environment–A review of recent developments in theory and applications

E Vanem, T Zhu, A Babanin - Marine Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Probabilistic modelling and statistical analysis of environmental conditions is important for
the design and assessment of ships and other marine structures. It will give a necessary …

[HTML][HTML] A benchmarking exercise for environmental contours

AF Haselsteiner, RG Coe, L Manuel, W Chai, B Leira… - Ocean …, 2021 - Elsevier
Environmental contours are used to simplify the process of design response analysis. A
wide variety of contour methods exist; however, there have been a very limited number of …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of serial correlation in environmental conditions on estimates of extreme events

E Mackay, G de Hauteclocque, E Vanem, P Jonathan - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In offshore engineering, it is common practice to estimate long-term extremes under the
assumption that environmental conditions are independent. However, many environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Analysing multivariate extreme conditions using environmental contours and accounting for serial dependence

E Vanem - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate statistical description of extreme environmental conditions is needed for risk
assessment and management of marine structures and is a crucial input to design of any …

Joint distribution of significant wave height and zero-up-crossing wave period using mixture copula method

W Huang, S Dong - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
An estimation of the statistical properties of a met-ocean environment is extremely important
in the design and risk assessment of marine structures. An adequate description of the joint …

Environmental wave contours by inverse FORM and Monte Carlo Simulation with variance reduction techniques

G Clarindo, AP Teixeira, CG Soares - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Environmental contours of significant wave height and wave period are established for 10,
25 and 100 year-return periods by different approaches. The environmental contours are …

Predicting wave heights for marine design by prioritizing extreme events in a global model

AF Haselsteiner, KD Thoben - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In the design process of marine structures like offshore wind turbines the long-term
distribution of significant wave height needs to be modelled to estimate loads. This is …

Quantitative comparison of environmental contour approaches

G de Hauteclocque, E Mackay, E Vanem - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Environmental contours are a pragmatic and widespread method to estimate the long-term
extreme response of marine structures. Over the years, a range of approaches have been …

Nonstationary modelling of significant wave height using time series decomposition method

W Huang, X Zhu, Y Jin, X Shen - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Marine structures are typically designed to withstand extreme events of a specific return
period derived within a stationary framework. Nevertheless, this stationarity assumption may …

Design loads and reliability assessment of marine structures considering statistical models of metocean data

Y Zhao, S Dong - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of statistical models for constructing the
bivariate distribution of metocean data on design loads and reliability assessment of …