Estimation of wave period statistics using numerical coastal wave model

Natural Hazards

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-186

  Muraleedharan, G ^a   Sinha, Mourani ^a   Rao, A D ^a   Nair, N Unnikrishnan ^b   Kurup, P G ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b Department of Physics   (India)

^c AMRITA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Coastal wave model; Gamma and Erlang distributions; Mean wave period; Significant wave period

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; ESTIMATION METHOD; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; OCEAN WAVE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 64249163137     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-008-9311-x     Document Type: Article

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