The reference data on the wind and wave regime of the Baltic, North, Black, Azov and Mediterranean Seas include the required calculation methodology and details for the correct classification of ships by navigation areas when developing the rules and regulations of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) to design ships and facilities, to assess the navigating conditions, to plan the operations on the open sea and on the shelf, as well as to resolve other matters related to the navigation and to the designing of ocean-engineering facilities. The data contained in this manual supersedes the appropriate sections of the reference data ―Wind and waves in oceans and seas‖ that were previously published by the Register of the USSR (L.: Transport, 1974).
The study has been carried out at the Department of Oceanology of the Saint Petersburg State University and in the Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics with the participation of INFOMAR LLC. Authorized persons: L.I. Lopatoukhin, A.V. Boukhanovsky, S.V. Ivanov, E.S. Chernysheva.