On the distributions of wave periods, wavelengths, and amplitudes in a random wave field

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Xu, Delun ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Zhang, Lizhen ^a   Xu, Ning ^a   Lu, Hongmin ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Experiment; Hilbert transform; Joint probability of wave variables

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WATER WAVE; WAVE FIELD; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 3543027432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JC002073     Document Type: Article

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