Increasing wave heights and extreme value projections: The wave climate of the U.S. Pacific Northwest

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 539-552

  Ruggiero, Peter ^a   Komar, Paul D ^a   Allan, Jonathan C ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal engineering design; Coastal hazards; Extreme values; Increasing storminess; Lognormal distribution; Oregon; Significant wave height; Washington

Indexed keywords

COASTAL HAZARDS; EXTREME VALUE; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; WASHINGTON;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; DESIGN; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GRAPHIC METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SAFETY ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; STORMS; WATER WAVES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; DESIGN; HISTOGRAM; LINEARITY; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE CLIMATE; WEIBULL THEORY;

OREGON; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 77950859727     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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