On the characteristics of observed coastal freak waves

Coastal Engineering Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 301-319

  Chien, Hwa ^a   Kao, Chia Chuen ^a   Chuang, Laurence Z H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Extreme waves; Field observation; Freak waves; Wavelet transform analysis

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

TIME-FREQUENCY DOMAIN;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 0036901397     PISSN: 21664250     EISSN: 17936292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0578563402000561     Document Type: Article

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