Use of advanced directional wave spectra analysis methods

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1421-1434

  Earle, M D ^a   Steele, K E ^b   Wang, D W C ^b  

^a Neptune Sciences Inc   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Buoys; Wave data; Wave spectra

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; DATA REDUCTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

DIRECTIONAL WAVE SPECTRA ANALYSIS METHODS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHOD (MEM);

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

WAVE;

EID: 0033526678     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-8018(99)00010-4     Document Type: Article

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