Extreme wave heights in the North Atlantic from Altimeter Data

Renewable Energy

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 241-248

  Wimmer, Werenfrid ^a   Challenor, Peter ^a   Retzler, Chris ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Ocean Power Delivery Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extreme wave heights; Generalised pareto distribution

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; SATELLITES;

EXTREME WAVE HEIGHTS; OCEAN FEATURE; SATELLITE TRACKS;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

WAVE;

EID: 27844552276     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2005.08.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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