Introducing marine climate variability into life cycle management of coastal and offshore structures

Coastal and offshore structures are subject to a life cycle process including several different phases. From the planning and design phase to the re-use or demolition phase marine climate information is extremely important to achieve cost effective functionality and technical quality. The complete life cycle may span over several decades what requires site-specific marine climate information at different time scales and including its natural variability. We present an integrated methodology to generate marine climate information relevant for life cycle management of coastal and offshore structures including short-term, seasonal, long-terms and very longterm information. An application of the methodology to a harbour is presented.