Title Wave characteristics distributions for Gaussian waves - wave-length, amplitude and steepness
Authors Georg Lindgren, Igor Rychlik
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Alternative Location http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0...
Publication Ocean Engineering
Year 1982
Volume 9
Issue 5
Pages 411 - 432
Document type Article
Status Published
Quality controlled Yes
Language eng
Publisher ELSEVIER
Abstract English In as tationary stochastic process the wave-length and amplitude are defined as the difference in time and height between a crest and the following trough. The distributions of these quantities are of great practical importance, but no closed form expressions are known at present. In previous papers we have presented an approximation which gives correct upper and lower bounds, regardless of the covariance structure under Gaussian assumptions. In this paper the suggested approximations are compared to two simpler approximations, one due to CavaniƩ et al. (1976) based on a cosine process and a new one, derived by replacing the model process by its regression curve.
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