Extreme waves in sea states crossing an oblique current

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 433-440

  Toffoli, A ^a   Babanin, A V ^a   Ardhuin, F ^b   Benoit, M ^c   Bitner Gregersen, E M ^d   Cavaleri, L ^e   Monbaliu, J ^f   Onorato, M ^g   Osborne, A R ^g   Fouques, J ^h   Moe, V ^h   Pakozdi, C ^h   Stansberg, C T ^h  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b French Naval Oceanographic Center   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^d DNV GL   (Norway)

^e INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^h SINTEF OCEAN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL WAVES; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME WAVES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LARGE AMPLITUDE WAVES; RANDOM WAVES; REGULAR WAVES; SEA STATE; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES; WAVEFIELDS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; GRAVITY WAVES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 80053955019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2010-20619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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