Extreme wind distribution tails: A "peaks over threshold" approach

Journal of Structural Engineering

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 539-547

  Simiu, E ^a   Heckert, N A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; STORMS;

DE HAAN METHOD; EPOCHS; EXTREME WIND DISTRIBUTION TAILS; EXTREME WIND SPEED MODEL; PEAKS OVER THRESHOLD APPROACH; REVERSE WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 0030150342     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(1996)122:5(539)     Document Type: Article

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