Extreme significant wave heights from combined satellite altimeter data

Coastal Engineering 2000 - Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, ICCE 2000

Volumn 276, Issue , 2000, Pages 1064-1077

  Alves, Jose Henrique G M ^a   Young, Ian R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER DATA; DATA BASE; DOCUMENTED PROCEDURES; EARTH ORBITING SATELLITES; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; GLOBAL ESTIMATE; PRACTICAL METHOD; RECTANGULAR MESH; SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATA; SATELLITE DATA; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; TOPEX/POSEIDON;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITES; WATER WAVES;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

EID: 70349408653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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