Application of the r largest-order statistics for long-term predictions of significant wave height

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 387-394

  Guedes Soares, C ^a   Scotto, M G ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Extreme value distribution; Long term model; Return value; Significant wave height

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; FILTRATION; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANNUAL MAXIMA (AM); GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE (GEV); LARGEST-ORDER STATISTICS; WAVE HEIGHT;

WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

NUMERICAL METHOD; PREDICTION; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 12144268679     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2004.04.003     Document Type: Article

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