Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) · 1978 · 35 citations · 0 references
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Natural SciencesEarth SciencesOceanographyOcean WavesPhysical OceanographyTime Series AnalysisSurface Wave DynamicsWave MeasurementsWave SpectraWave StatisticsAutocorrelation FunctionJoint Distribution Of Wave ParametersJoint Probability AnalysisStorm Wave StatisticsWave Envelope StatisticsWave Height DistributionWave HeightsWave Spectral Statistics
This paper presents a theoretical and experimental study of the correlation between successive waves. The theoretical model developed here, uses as starting point Rice's results on the autocorrelation function of the envelope of a narrow band random gaussian signal. Recent developments by Hasselmann et al. on wave spectra and Cavanie et al. on wave heights and periods statistics used as input in Rice's model, lead to a theoretical joint probability for successive wave heights. This model is compared to experimental results computed from 169 North Sea storm wave recordings corresponding to more than 26 000 individual waves. [NOT CONTROLLED OCR]