Extreme waves for Kuwaiti territorial waters

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1496-1504

  Neelamani, S ^a   Al Salem, K ^a   Rakha, K ^a  

^a KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Extreme waves; Gumbel and Weibull distributions; Hindcasted wave data; Kuwaiti territorial waters; Significant wave height and mean wave period

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EXTREME WAVES; GUMBEL DISTRIBUTIONS; HINDCASTED WAVE DATA; KUWAITI TERRITORIAL WATERS; MEAN WAVE PERIOD; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT;

WATER WAVES;

COASTAL ZONES; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY; WATER WAVES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

HINDCASTING; PROBABILITY; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; WEIBULL THEORY;

ASIA; EURASIA; KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST]; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 34147129150     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2006.08.013     Document Type: Article

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