The shape of large surface waves on the open sea and the Draupner New Year wave

Applied Ocean Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 73-83

  Walker, Daniel A G ^a   Taylor, Paul H ^a   Taylor, R Eatock ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Freak; NewWave; Nonlinear; Set down; Wave

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SURFACE WATERS; SURFACE WAVES; WATER LEVELS; WAVES;

AUTO-CORRELATION FUNCTION; OFFSHORE ENGINEERING DESIGNS; RANDOM MODEL; SEA SURFACES;

SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

WAVE;

WAVE;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; FREAK; NONLINEAR; OFFSHORE ENGINEERING DESIGNS; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; SET-DOWN; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 18744390745     PISSN: 01411187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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