Horizontal asymmetry and steepness distributions for wind-driven ocean waves from severe storms

Applied Ocean Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 137-155

  Stansell, Paul ^a   Wolfram, Julian ^b   Zachary, Stan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Horizontal asymmetry; Ocean wave steepness; Steepness distributions conditional on wave height

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STORMS;

LASER ALTIMETERS;

WATER WAVES;

ASYMMETRY; WAVE SPECTRUM; WIND WAVE;

EID: 0346094216     PISSN: 01411187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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