Comparison of sea state statistics between a phenomenological model and field data

This paper describes IPAS [13] (Interactive Phenomenological Animation of the Sea), a method for numerical interactive phenomenological animation of the sea, and it aims to validate this method by confrontation with field data. As IPAS is a phenomenological animation, it does not involve computation of hydrodynamic equations on a mesh or a grid of points. Instead, autonomous agents, modeling oceanographic phenomena, are combined and animated using enaction-based multi-agents simulation. A large number of such simulations has been carried out, and the resulting statistics are compared to a commonly used theoretical model, showing the ability of IPAS to represent actual sea state characteristics.