Simultaneous occurrence of metocean variables can present a multihazard to maritime systems. However, simplified design approaches to assess simultaneous significant wave heights and wind velocities are lacking, especially if seasonality is considere...
Seaport operability is key to the economic viability of ports. Metocean conditions (e.g., wind, short waves, and infragravity waves) affect this operability when certain thresholds are exceeded. This paper describes a method for the global mapping of...
The current oil industry is moving towards digitalization, which is a good opportunity that will bring value to all its stakeholders. The digitalization of oil and gas discovery, which are production-based industries, is driven by enabling technologi...
Floating offshore wind turbines operate under continuously varying atmospheric and ocean conditions, whose influence is not explicitly accounted for in conventional blade-pitch controller scheduling. As a result, control strategies designed to provid...
The advancement towards utilizing renewable energy sources is crucial for mitigating environmental issues such as air pollution and climate change. Offshore wind turbines, particularly floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs), are developed to harness...
Maritime navigation efficiency is commonly assessed using isolated route, speed, energy, or traffic indicators that do not fully represent voyage context. This study proposes a context-aware framework based on GPS–AIS data fusion, planned-route...
Geospatial sensing and data analytics can support maritime risk and safety management by transforming vessel-movement and environmental observations into transparent evidence for route assessment. Within this context, reducing maritime fuel consumpti...
Turbidity impacts the growth and productivity of marine benthic habitats due to light limitation. Daily/monthly synoptic and tidal influences often drive turbidity fluctuations, however, our understanding of what drives turbidity across seasonal/inte...
Harmonising heterogeneous met-ocean time series to a common temporal resolution is a prerequisite for integrated marine renewable energy assessments. Such datasets often differ in their sampling frequency, statistical distribution, and non-stationari...
In this research, a hierarchical met-ocean data selection model is proposed to reduce the computational cost in stochastic simulation of operation and maintenance (O&M) and enable rapid evaluation of offshore renewable energy systems. The propose...
Offshore wind development in the Binh Thuan–Phu Quy offshore domain requires regional, multi-variable preliminary metocean screening that extends beyond wind-resource mapping alone. This study presents a 32-year integrated wind–wave&ndash...
Through the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) embarked on the satellites Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B of the Copernicus program, a large quantity of observations is routinely acquired over the oceans. A wide range of features from both oceanic (e.g., bio...
Early-stage offshore wind development in the Gulf of Tonkin (Bac Bo Gulf) requires environmental information beyond conventional wind-resource mapping. Waves, currents, directional relationships, and extreme conditions all affect structural loading,...
Over the latest decades, oil marine pollution has posed a vital threat for global ocean health, since spillages of any scale are related to environmental, social and financial impacts. The worldwide increase in oil and gas demand, and the parallel ri...
The joint probabilistic modeling of environmental variables is essential for the design and analysis of offshore structures, as it enables the representation of dependence between parameters and the realistic estimation of combined events. This artic...
In the complex processes of route planning, voyage monitoring, and post-voyage analysis, a key element is the capability of merging metocean forecast data with the available knowledge of ship responses in the encountered environmental conditions. In...
A numerical model in slice configuration was applied to the Central Andaman Sea in order to derive metocean operational and design criteria associated to internal solitary waves which are large amplitude interfacial waves. For that purpose, a 10 year...
The study presents a newly generated hindcast database of metocean conditions for the region of the North Sea by parametrising the newly introduced ST6 physics in a nearshore wave model. Exploring and assessing the intricacies in wave generation are...
Field observations require adequate metocean data gathering to promote the link between environmental diagnostic and prognostic obtained from modeling techniques. In general, model confidence can be improved by using data which present better quality...
Constructing offshore and coastal structures with the highest level of stability and lowest cost, as well as the prevention of faulty risk, is the desired plan that stakeholders seek to obtain. The successful construction plans of such projects mostl...
Oceanographic buoys are essential platforms for marine observation, supporting real-time monitoring, climate studies, operational oceanography, coastal management, and offshore activities. This review maps the scientific literature on oceanographic b...
Oil spills may have devastating effects on marine ecosystems, public health, the economy, and coastal communities. As a consequence, scientific literature contains various up-to-date, advanced oil spill predictive models, capable of simulating the tr...
Daily wind patterns and their relational associations with other metocean (oceanographic and meteorological) variables were algorithmically computed and extracted from a year-long wind and weather dataset, which was collected hourly from an ocean buo...
Despite the important role of offshore renewable energies (OREs) in the energy transition, the economical viability is still unclear. Therefore, an appropriate site selection is crucial. Besides the energy potential, the impact of operation and maint...
Offshore floating photovoltaics (OFPVs) can expand solar generation without terrestrial land-use conflicts, but marine structures, installations, and operations remain cost-intensive. This study develops a reproducible deterministic and probabilistic...
Here, accessibility to near-shore and offshore marine sites is evaluated based on wave and ice conditions. High-resolution third-generation wave model results are used to examine the operation and maintenance conditions for renewable energy sources w...
Port downtime leads to economic losses and reductions in safety levels. This problem is generally assessed in terms of uni-variable thresholds, despite its multidimensional nature. The aim of the present study is to develop a downtime probability for...
Multi-purpose platforms, which combine renewable energy generation devices and diverse functionalities, are a smart way to expand the applications of offshore platforms. An environmentally friendly multi-purpose offshore platform is proposed by the &...
The aim of the paper is to examine the nowadays well-known wind farm wake photographs taken on 12 February 2008 at the offshore Horns Rev 1 wind farm. The meteorological conditions are described from observations from several satellite sensors quanti...
To maintain the increasing interest and development in offshore wind energy, novel training tools for engineers and researchers are needed. Concurrently, educational outreach activities are in demand to inform the public about the importance of offsh...
In recent decades, the world’s population is progressively shifting towards coastal areas, and it is estimated that it could reach 1 billion by 2050. On the other hand, meteocean forcings show increasing modification in terms of the occurrence...
The Alber equation is a phase-averaged second-moment model used to study the statistics of a sea state, which has recently been attracting renewed attention. We extend it in two ways: firstly, we derive a generalized Alber system starting from a syst...
Ocean wave design criteria are required for the design of offshore platforms and floating systems, which are derived using in situ measurements. However, there is uncertainty regarding the performance of the instruments used for the in situ measureme...
Exploration of oil and gas in the offshore regions is increasing due to global energy demand. The weather in offshore areas is truly unpredictable due to the sparsity and unreliability of metocean data. Offshore structures may be affected by critical...
Monitoring oil drift by integrating multi-source satellite imagery has been a relatively underexplored practice due to the limited time-sampling of datasets. However, this limitation has been mitigated by the emergence of new satellite constellations...
The structural design of offshore wind turbines is dominated by environmental conditions such as wind and waves, in addition to deadweight loads and loads from operation. Probabilistic combination approaches exist for the ultimate limit state (ULS) t...
Automatically detecting the wet/dry shoreline from remote sensing imagery has many benefits for beach management in coastal areas by enabling managers to take measures to protect wildlife during high water events. This paper proposes the use of a mod...
The purpose of this paper is to derive and propose site-specific joint environmental contours for two eligible Offshore Wind Farm Organized Development Areas (OWFODAs) in the Aegean Sea, Greece. The contours are tailored primarily for the design, str...
Punta Langosteira port, located in A Coruña (Spain), was monitored during the winters of 2017 and 2018, measuring wave pressure in the crown wall structure. Furthermore, the metocean variables were measured on a buoy located very close to the...
A hybrid CFD–ML model for the prediction of sea spray icing, SPICE2, was developed in Part 1 of this study in Deshpande et al., 2024. The SPICE2 model is an extension of the ML model, SPICE, where some of the variables required for icing rate p...
Wind and waves present the main causes of environmental loading on seagoing ships and offshore structures. Thus, its detailed understanding can improve the design and maintenance of these structures. Wind and wave statistical models are developed bas...
Tsunamis are among the deadliest threats to coastal areas as reminded by the recent tragic events in the Indian Ocean in 2004 and in Japan in 2011. A large number of tropical islands are indeed exposed due to their proximity to potential tsunami sour...
This paper evaluates the feasibility of using wind power for power supply to coastal communities isolated from the main supply grid. The case study is Stewart Island, where the cost of electricity provided by a central diesel power station is higher...
Ports are strategic hubs of the logistic chain and are likely to be exposed to natural hazard events. Variation of metocean agents derived from climate change, such as sea level rise or changes in the magnitude, frequency, duration, and direction of...
Integrating renewable energy sources with aquaculture systems on floating multi-use platforms presents an innovative approach to developing sustainable and resilient offshore infrastructure, utilizing the ocean’s considerable potential. From Ma...
Growing energy demand worldwide and onshore limitations have increased interest in offshore renewable energy exploitation. A combination of offshore renewable energy resources such as wind and wave energy can produce stable power output at a lower co...
The time required for rescue is a critical factor for surviving a marine incident. The regulatory framework, International Maritime Organization (IMO) Polar Code, utilizes a risk-based approach. It states that the vessel operators are to define the t...
The Marine Institute of Ireland operates a network of weather buoys around Ireland. A wave of 32.3 m height (crest–trough) was recorded by one of these buoys, the M6 buoy, off the coast of Ireland in October 2020. In this paper, the technologic...
The Cook Strait in New Zealand is an ideal location for wind and tidal renewable sources of energy due to its strong winds and tidal currents. The integration of both technologies can help to avoid the detrimental effects of fossil fuels and to reduc...
This study is dedicated to the hydrodynamic climate of Port Phillip Bay (PPB)—a largest coastal lagoon system in Victoria, Australia. Novelty of the present study includes long-term hydrodynamic hindcast simulations integrated with a spectral wave mo...
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