The propagation of wind errors through ocean wave hindcasts

Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 184-189

  Bertotti, L ^b   Booij, N ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b University of Hawaii at Manoa   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORMS; VELOCITY; WIND EFFECTS;

OCEAN WAVE HINDCAST; UNCERTAINTIES; WAVE MODEL; WIND ANALYSIS; WIND ERROR PROPAGATION;

WATER WAVES;

WAVES; WIND FIELDS;

COMPUTATION; ERROR ESTIMATION; FORECASTS; HINDCASTS; OCEAN WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND FIELD; WIND FIELDS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0030207824     PISSN: 08927219     EISSN: 1528896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2828832     Document Type: Article

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