Estimation of shallow water representative wave HEIGHTS

Coastal Engineering Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 291-310

  Rattanapitikon, Winyu ^a   Shibayama, Tomoya ^b  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Highest one tenth wave height; Maximum wave height; Mean wave height; Rayleigh distribution; Representative wave heights; Significant wave height

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAYLEIGH WAVES;

HIGHEST ONE-TENTH WAVE HEIGHT; MAXIMUM WAVE HEIGHT; MEAN WAVE HEIGHT; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION; REPRESENTATIVE WAVE HEIGHTS; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 34547665005     PISSN: 21664250     EISSN: 17936292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0578563407001630     Document Type: Article

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