Extreme value analysis methods used for extreme wave prediction

Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 10-17

  Soukissian, Takvor H ^a   Kalantzi, Georgia D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Design values; Extreme value analysis; Sea waves

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DESIGN VALUES; EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS; SEA WAVES;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 36749064359     PISSN: 10986189     EISSN: 15551792     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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