Probability distributions for maximum wave and crest heights

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 329-360

  Prevosto, Marc ^a   Krogstad, Harald E ^b   Robin, Agnès ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Maximum crest height; Maximum wave height; Narrow band model; Non linear models; Probability distribution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

WAVE HEIGHT;

WATER WAVES;

PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAVE HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; WAVE SIMULATION;

PROBABILITY; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 0033865504     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3839(00)00017-X     Document Type: Article

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