Extreme value predictions based on nonstationary time series of wave data

Environmetrics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-46

  Stefanakos, Christos N ^a,b   Athanassoulis, Gerassimos A ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Extreme values; Mean number of upcrossings; Nonstationary time series data; Return period; Significant wave height; Simulated data

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; RETURN PERIOD; WAVE HEIGHT;

EID: 31344473742     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.742     Document Type: Article

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