Abstract: Although most offshore structures are open space frames, they still disturb the currents that flow through them. This flow blockage has important consequences both for calculating forces on the structures and for choosing ...

Abstract: Many empirical and heuristic distribution functions for wave crest heights have been proposed, but their predictions differ considerably. Part of the lack of agreement is due to the difficulty of making measurements that ...

Abstract: The directional spreading of waves is important for both theoretical and practical reasons. Enough measurements have now been made to draw conclusions about the behavior of wave spreading at sites in different climatic ...

Abstract: Since 1986, nine years of wave data derived from satellites have been accumulated, and this database will expand dramatically in the next two years as two more satellites are added. Several researchers have begun using ...

Abstract: The upper ocean's response to three hurricanes [Norbert (1984), Josephine (1984) and Gloria (1985)] is examined using field observations and a numerical ocean model. Our goal is to describe the physical processes that ...

Abstract: Storm currents are a significant part of the design hydrodynamic flow field in areas subject to tropical storms. In September 1973, Tropical Storm Delia passed over the instrumented Buccaneer platform located in 20 m of ...

Abstract: The response of the ocean to hurricanes was investigated using aircraft-deployable expendable current profilers (AXCP). The goals were to observe and separate the surface wave and surface mixed layer (SML) velocities under ...