Persistence statistics of marine environmental parameters from Markov theory, part 2: Analysis in continuous time

Applied Ocean Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 243-255

  Tsekos, C ^a   Anastasiou, K ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

KUWASHIMA-HOGBEN METHOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; WAVE HEIGHT PERSISTENCE; WIND SPEED PERSISTENCE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; MARINE APPLICATIONS;

CONTINUOUS TIME; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING; MARKOV THEORY; PERSISTENCE STATISTICS;

EID: 0030263460     PISSN: 01411187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-1187(96)00029-6     Document Type: Article

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