Addendum to: “Probability distributions of wave heights in bimodal seas in an offshore basin” [Appl. Ocean Res. 31 (2009) 90–100

Abstract

E(h1) = Pr [H1/σ > h1] = c0f (h1) exp(−c1h1) where h1 stands for the linear wave height; c0, c1 and the function f take particular forms for each of the distributions. Assuming that the wave process is nonlinear, the linear quasideterministic theory of Boccotti [6] allows corrections to be introduced in the recorded data to obtain the linear component. Accepting that the recorded waves follow the second-order wave theory, the linear component, h1, of the wave height h can be obtained from it as [11]