Committee No I.1: Environment: Environment

Published date: 2018

Additional Information: Funding Information: In Bitner-Gregersen et al. (2016), definition of the severity or adversity of met-ocean conditions under which ships need to maintain manoeuvrability were discussed. Specification of such adverse weather conditions was one of the objectives of the SHOPERA (Energy Efficient Safe SHip OPERAtion) (2013–2016) project, funded by the European Commission in the frame of FP7. Three distinct situations requiring different adverse weather criteria are considered in the project: manoeuvring in the open sea, manoeuvring in coastal waters and low-speed manoeuvring in restricted areas. The purpose of the present study is twofold, first to investigate metocean climate associated with the three selected scenarios and specifying its main properties, second identifying critical metocean characteristics requiring sensitivity studies in numerical simulations and model tests. Both measured and hindcast data are used in the analysis. The North Atlantic deep water metocean environment and three coastal locations are considered. The definitions are basis for formulating power and steering requirements for ships. Funding Information: In autumn 2015, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat (SPRS) conducted a research cruise named the “Oden Arctic Technology Research Cruise 2015” (OATRC 2015) which was supported by the ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company. The research cruise involved two icebreakers, Oden and Frej, who sailed north of Svalbard to conduct full scale trials of new technologies relating to ice management (Lubbad et al. (2016)).

Venue - Dates: 20th International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress, ISSC 2018, , Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2018-09-09 - 2018-09-14

Keywords: climate change, current, data source, deep water, design condition, Environment, ice, modelling, ocean, operational condition, rogue waves, sea level, shallow water, uncertainty, wave, wind

Local EPrints ID: 484129

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/484129

DOI: doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-862-4-1

ISSN: 2543-0955

PURE UUID: 7b372306-20c2-4f50-be5d-344451de9a2b

Date deposited: 10 Nov 2023 18:00

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