Introduction

The following sections are included:

• Waves in the ocean and their significance

• Basic assumptions on seawater and wave motion

  • Continuous fluid and water particle concept

  • Properties of seawater and its motion

• Methods of description of random waves

  • A brief orientation

  • Basic definitions and concepts of time series analysis

  • Fundamentals of spectral description of ocean waves

    • Deterministic description of wave train

    • Second-order stochastic process

    • Wiener-Khinchine Theorem

    • Cross-spectral density function