Seasonality and duration in extreme value distributions of significant wave height

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 131-138

  Méndez, Fernando J ^a   Menéndez, Melisa ^a   Luceño, Alberto ^b   Medina, Raúl ^a   Graham, Nicholas E ^c,d  

^a ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS INSTITUTE IH CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme value distribution; Likelihood; Pareto distribution; Peak over threshold; Poisson process; Seasonality; Significant wave height; Statistical model; Wave height persistence

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POISSON EQUATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION; PEAK OVER THRESHOLD; WAVE HEIGHT;

WATER WAVES;

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POISSON EQUATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER WAVES;

BREAKWATER; DESIGN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SEASONALITY; STORM SURGE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVE HEIGHT;

EID: 36248957569     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2007.07.012     Document Type: Article

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