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Stochastic Description of Offshore Environment

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Water Wave Kinematics

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This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of the stochastic description of the ocean environment. Non-linearity consideration in random seas, wave breaking, wave groups, and stochastic properties of offshore currents are discussed presenting phenomena observed in the real world.

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Ochi, M.K. (1990). Stochastic Description of Offshore Environment. In: Tørum, A., Gudmestad, O.T. (eds) Water Wave Kinematics. NATO ASI Series, vol 178. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0531-3_6

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