Observations and modeling of linear and nonlinear spatio-temporal surface wave statistics

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 773-785

  Romero, Leonel ^a   Melville, W Kendall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE LENGTH; CREST LENGTH; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; JOINT PROBABILITY; LIDAR DATA; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; NUMERICAL STOCHASTIC; OFF-SHORE; SECOND-ORDER NONLINEARITY; SINGLE POINT; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; THRESHOLD WAVES; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE PARAMETERS; WAVE STATISTICS; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; SURFACE WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 80053961508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2010-21101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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