Output

You specify which type of integral spectral parameters to be calculated. The estimates are saved in the log file, which as default is automatically opened after execution.

Spectral moments
Peak parameters
Spectral width
Peak-to-peak estimates
Period estimates

Spectral moments

The first four spectral moments are calculated. The spectral moment is defined as

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where WsLinearSpectralAnalysisDialogs00020.jpg is auto spectrum and f frequency.

Peak parameters

The spectral peak frequency fp is the frequency corresponding to the maxi­mum spectral density.

The spectral peakedness factor Qp is defined as

(3.3)   WsLinearSpectralAnalysisDialogs00023.jpg

Qp describes the peakedness of a wave spectrum. Qp is infinity for a single or extremely narrow-banded spectrum and is unity for a white noise spectrum

Spectral width

The spectral width (or broadness) parameter is defined as

(3.4)   WsLinearSpectralAnalysisDialogs00026.jpg

Peak-to-peak estimates

The significant wave height is defined as

(3.5)   WsLinearSpectralAnalysisDialogs00029.jpg

The wave height with exceedance probability of p is defined as

(3.6)   WsLinearSpectralAnalysisDialogs00032.jpg

where p is set to 10%, 1%, 0.1% and 0.01%.

Period estimates

The peak wave period Tp defined as

(3.7)   WsLinearSpectralAnalysisDialogs00035.jpg

where fp is the frequency corresponding to the maximum spectral density.

The mean wave period T01 defined as

(3.8)   WsLinearSpectralAnalysisDialogs00038.jpg

The mean wave period T02 defined as

(3.9)   WsLinearSpectralAnalysisDialogs00041.jpg

The mean wave period T24 defined as

(3.10)   WsLinearSpectralAnalysisDialogs00044.jpg