Statistical characteristics of long waves nearshore

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-102

  Didenkulova, Ira ^a,b   Pelinovsky, Efim ^b   Sergeeva, Anna ^b  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Irregular long waves; Runup on a beach; Statistical properties

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL THEORY; COASTAL FLOODS; EXTREME VALUE; GAUSSIAN PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; INCIDENT WAVES; LINEAR THEORY; LONG WAVES; MEAN WATER LEVELS; NARROW BANDS; NEARSHORES; NON-GAUSSIAN; NON-LINEAR THEORY; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR SHALLOW WATER; PROBABILITY CHARACTERISTICS; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; RIGOROUS SOLUTION; RUN-UP HEIGHTS; RUNUP ON A BEACH; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICAL MOMENTS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; WAVE NONLINEARITY; WAVE SPECTRA; WAVEBREAKING; WAVEFIELDS;

BEACHES; COASTAL ENGINEERING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; WATER LEVELS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

BEACH; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NONLINEARITY; SHALLOW WATER; SHORELINE; SKEWNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAVE RUNUP; WAVE SPECTRUM;

EID: 78349305819     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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