Spatial modelling of extreme sea-levels

Environmetrics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 283-301

  Dixon, Mark J ^a   Tawn, Jonathan A ^b   Vassie, John M ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal flooding; Extreme sea levels; Extreme value theory; Joint probabilities method; Kernel regression smoothing; Spatial estimation

Indexed keywords

MODELLING; SEA LEVEL; SPATIAL VARIATION;

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EID: 0031862519     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-095x(199805/06)9:3<283::aid-env304>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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