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Chapter 4.5, Problem 78E
The article “On Assessing the Accuracy of Offshore Wind Turbine Reliability-Based Design Loads from the Environmental Contour Method” (Intl. J. of Offshore and Polar Engr., 2005: 132–140) proposes the Weibull distribution with α = 1.817 and β = .863 as a model for 1-hour significant wave height (m) at a certain site.
a. What is the
b. What is the probability that wave height exceeds its
c. What is the
d. For 0 < p < 1, give a general expression for the 100pth percentile of the wave-height distribution.
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