We consider the estimation of the extremes of the metocean climate, in particular those of the univariate and joint distributions of wave height, wave period and wind speed. This is of importance in the design of oil rigs and other marine structures which must be able to withstand extreme environmental loadings. Such loadings are often functions of two or more metocean variables and the problem...

In this paper, we investigate the potential gains in cost-effectiveness from changing spatial scale at which nutrient reduction targets are set for Baltic Sea, with particular focus on loadings agriculture. The costs of achieving loading reductions compared across five levels scale, namely entire Sea; marine basin level; country watershed and grid square level. A novel highly-disaggregated mode...

one of the difficulties in using absolute altitudes is the separation between the mean open sealevel and geoid. theoretically, geoid is the base level in absolute altitudes, but practically, the mean open sealevel is used as a base level for absolute altitudes. the difference between these two levels is called as the seasurface topography. in this research, it is dealt the mean sea level modeli...

Background Efficient deconstruction and bioconversion of solids at high mass loadings is necessary to produce industrially relevant titers of biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass. To date, only a few studies have investigated the effect of solids loadings on microorganisms of interest for consolidated bioprocessing. Here, the effects that various switchgrass loadings have on Clostridium thermo...

In the present article, a numerical study is performed to investigate the crushing behavior of cylindrical and conical corrugated composite tubes. Different aluminum foams are applied to the proposed structures in order to offer an excellent energy absorption capacity. The crushing behavior of tubes are evaluated in terms of two parameters: SEA (specific energy absorption) and CFE (crush force ...

methods to derive wind speed and the sea state from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data are presented and applied for use in high resolution numerical modeling for coastal application. The new radar satellite TerraSAR-X (TS-X) images the sea surface with a high resolution up to 1m. So not only the wind field and integrated sea state parameters but also individual ocean waves with wave...