Published February 18, 2021 | Version 1.0
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Reconstructed sea state using ship motion data recorded during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE).

  • 1. Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, 3010, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • 2. Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 277-8561, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
  • 1. Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, 3010, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • 2. Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 277-8561, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Description

Dataset abstract

The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) took place aboard the Russian icebreaker, Akademik Tryoshnikov, from December 2016 to March 2017. Throughout the expedition, the ship's motion was recorded with an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) at a sampling rate of 1 Hz. The sea state is reconstructed based on the ship's motion relying on the principle that the vessel is a rigid body with six degrees of freedom that moves in response to the incident wave field and restoring forces. The relation between the ship's motion and the wave field is evaluated via the response amplitude operator R(f), i.e. a ship-specific function that translates the motion spectrum into the wave spectrum. Motion spectra were evaluated by applying a Discrete Fourier Transform to 5-minute time series of heave motion. An approximation of R(f) for the Akademik Tryoshnikov was calculated solving the equation of motion with a model based on the boundary element method.

Dataset contents

  • Reconstructed-Sea-State.csv, data file, comma-separated values
  • data_file_header.txt, metadata, text
  • README.txt, metadata, text

Dataset license

This reconstructed sea state dataset from ACE is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) whose full text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Notes

This work was supported by the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE), which was made possible by funding from the Swiss Polar Institute and Ferring Pharmaceuticals. The authors acknowledge contribution from the Australian Antarctic Program (project AAS 4434) and the Cooperative Research Centres Projects, CRC-P, initiative of the Australian Government (project CRC-P53991). MHD was partially supported by a Ph.D. top-up from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

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Additional details

Related works

Is derived from
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.3369130 (DOI)
Is supplemented by
Dataset: 10.4225/15/5A178EF0E5156 (DOI)
Report: 10.5281/zenodo.1443511 (DOI)

References

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