On kurtosis and occurrence probability of freak waves

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1471-1483

  Mori, Nobuhito ^a   Janssen, Peter A E M ^b  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

FINITE KURTOSIS; FREAK WAVE OCCURENCE; NON-GAUSSIAN THEORY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GAUSSIAN METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER WAVE;

EID: 33748516601     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO2922.1     Document Type: Article

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