Comparison of approaches for estimating the probability of coastal flooding

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 405-423

  Bruun, John T ^a   Tawn, Jonathan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coefficient of tail dependence; Extreme value theory; Generalized extreme value distribution; Joint probability method; Sea levels; Structure variable method; Waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039390535     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00118     Document Type: Article

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