Dangerous sea-states for marine operations

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 85-92

  Toffoli, Alessandro ^a   Monbaliu, Jaak ^a   Lefěvre, Jean Michel ^b   Bitner Gregersen, Elzbieta ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Meteo France   (France)

^c DNV GL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dangerous sea state; Ship accidents; Wave parameters

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DANGEROUS SEA-STATE; MARINE OPERATIONS; SHIP ACCIDENTS; WAVE PARAMETERS;

MARINE ENGINEERING;

EID: 23844524230     PISSN: 10986189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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