Wave height distributions on shallow foreshores

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 161-182

  Battjes, Jurjen A ^a   Groenendijk, Heiko W ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WATER LEVELS; WATER WAVE EFFECTS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

SHALLOW FORESHORES; WAVE HEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS;

COASTAL ZONES;

ANALYTICAL MODEL; SHALLOW WATER; WAVE HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

PARAMETERIZATION; SHALLOW WATER; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 0033916333     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3839(00)00007-7     Document Type: Article

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