Threshold modelling of spatially dependent non-stationary extremes with application to hurricane-induced wave heights

Environmetrics

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 799-809

  Northrop, Paul J ^a   Jonathan, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Shell Thornton Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dependent data; Extreme value regression modelling; Quantile regression; Threshold selection; Wave heights

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STORM SURGE; THRESHOLD; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVE HEIGHT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 80055099864     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.1106     Document Type: Article

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