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A new method to estimate wave height of specified return period

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In this paper, we propose a new method to estimate the wave height of a specific return period based on the Hurst rule and a self-affine fractal formula. A detailed description of our proposed model is presented in this paper. We use the proposed model to analyze wave height data recorded along the coast of Chaolian Island from 1963 to 1989. The results show that the performance of our proposed model in estimating design wave heights is superior to traditional models.

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  1. College of Mathematical Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China

    Liping Wang  (王莉萍) & Xin Xu  (许新)

  2. College of Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China

    Guilin Liu  (刘桂林)

  3. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Baiyu Chen  (陈柏宇)

  4. Department of Naval Architecture and Civil Engineering, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan, 316000, China

    Zhengshou Chen  (陈正寿)

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China’s “Study on Multi-objective Four-layer Nested Probability Model (MOFLNPM) and its Application to Risk Assessment for Coastal Engineering” (No. 51379195), the Shandong Province Natural Science “Study on the Risk Assessments and Statistical Analysis of Marine Engineering based on Multi-target Three-level Nested Statistical Model” (No. ZR2013EEM034), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41476078), and the Science Research Program of Zhejiang Province (No. 2015C34013)

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Wang, L., Xu, X., Liu, G. et al. A new method to estimate wave height of specified return period. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 35, 1002–1009 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-017-6056-y

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