Reanalysis of regular and random breaking wave statistics

Coastal Engineering Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-106

  Goda, Yoshimi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breaker index; Characteristic wave heights; Irregular waves; Kurtosis; Nonlinearity parameter; Skewness; Spectral significant wave height; Wave breaking; Wave height ratio

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BREAKER INDICES; IRREGULAR WAVES; KURTOSIS; NON-LINEARITY PARAMETER; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SKEWNESS; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVEBREAKING;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 77951734341     PISSN: 21664250     EISSN: 17936292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0578563410002129     Document Type: Article

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