Statistical modelling of the ocean environment – A review of recent developments in theory and applications

Probabilistic modelling and statistical analysis of environmental conditions is important for the design assessment ships other marine structures. It will give a necessary input to structural reliability assessments risk provides means identify that structures are expected withstand in their lifetime. In this paper, recent developments relevant metocean variables describing environment at sea be reviewed presented. This includes review applied such data, example wave-parameters, but also some theoretical methodological from fields applications reviewed. The paper divided into different sub-sections addressing various aspects ocean environment, as long-term short-term statistics, extreme value analysis, non-stationary covariate effects, multivariate joint distributions, spatial statistics machine learning applications. distinction sub-topics may somewhat arbitrary, papers address several these topics, e.g. non-stationary, it believed useful still keep separate sections main aspects. overview anyone involved or structures, contribute push state art industry practice.