How severe wave conditions are possible on the Norwegian Continental Shelf?

Marine Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 428-450

  Reistad, M ^a   Magnusson, A K ^a   Haver, S ^b   Gudmestad, O T ^b,c   Kvamme, D ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Extreme significant wave height; Extreme weather scenarios; Running fetch

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; PROBABILITY; WIND EFFECTS;

EXTREME SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; EXTREME WEATHER SCENARIOS; RUNNING FETCH;

WATER WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; PROBABILITY; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

EXTREME EVENT; WAVE MODELING; WAVE RUNUP;

EID: 33645320229     PISSN: 09518339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marstruc.2005.07.009     Document Type: Article

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