Global ship accidents and ocean swell-related sea states

Zhang, Zhiwei; Li, Xiao-Ming

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2041-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2041-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-2041-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 11

Research article

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28 Nov 2017

Research article |

| 28 Nov 2017

Global ship accidents and ocean swell-related sea states

Zhiwei Zhang and Xiao-Ming Li

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RC1: 'Review of the manuscript “Global ship accidents and ocean swell-related sea states” Authors : Zhiwei Zhang, Xiao-Ming Li', Thomas Bruns, 08 May 2017
- AC1: 'Response to the referee's comments', Xiaoming Li, 09 Jun 2017
RC2: 'Interactive comment on 'Global ship accidents and ocean swell-related sea states' - second reviewer', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Jun 2017
- AC2: 'Responses to the reviewer's comments', Xiaoming Li, 10 Jul 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (10 Jul 2017) by Thomas Glade

AR by Xiaoming Li on behalf of the Authors (04 Sep 2017)

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (07 Sep 2017) by Thomas Glade

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (11 Sep 2017)

ED: Publish as is (16 Oct 2017) by Thomas Glade

AR by Xiaoming Li on behalf of the Authors (21 Oct 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

In this study, based on a 10-year ship accident dataset released by the International Maritime Organization, we analyzed the sea state characteristics during ship accidents that occurred in weather-related conditions. It is found that sea states of co-existed wind sea and swell, with close wave periods and oblique wave directions, represent threats to sailing vessels. We hope that these findings are valuable references to the study of shipping safety and also extreme wave mechanisms.