Maximum annually recurring wave heights in Hawai'i

Pacific Science

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 541-553

  Vitousek, Sean ^a   Fletcher, Charles H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HINDCASTING; PROBABILITY; SHORELINE; SURFACE WAVE; SWELL; WAVE HEIGHT;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53449098520     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2984/1534-6188(2008)62[541:MARWHI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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