Regional Frequency Analysis of Extreme Wave Heights: Trading Space for Time
by Pieter Van Gelder, (Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, Netherlands; E-mail: p.vangelder@ct.tudelft.nl WWW Home-page: http://surf.to/vangelder), John De Ronde, (Ministry of Water Management, RIKZ, P.O. Box 20907, 2500 EX Den Haag, Netherlands, E-mail: J.G.dRonde@rikz.rws.minvenw.nl), Neyko M. Neykov, (National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,66 Tsarigradsko Shaussee, Sofia 1784, Bulgaria; E-mail: neyko.neykov@meteo.bg), and Plamen Neytchev, (National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,66 Tsarigradsko Shaussee, Sofia 1784, Bulgaria; E-mail: plamen.neytchev@meteo.bg)
pp. 1099-1112, (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40549(276)85)
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Conference Proceeding Paper |
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Coastal Engineering 2000 |
| Abstract: |
In this paper a regional frequency analysis is suggested in order to obtain more accurate estimations for the tails of wave height distribution functions. A case study with wave height data on the Norts Sea is presented. |
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