Spectrogram analysis of the time-frequency characteristics of ocean wind waves

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 14-15, 2005, Pages 1643-1663

  Guedes Soares, C ^a   Cherneva, Z ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Non stationary signals; Ocean surface waves; Short time Fourier transform; Time frequency analysis; Wave groups; Wave measurements

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SWELLING; TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

OCEAN WIND WAVES; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD); TIME FREQUENCY EVOLUTION; WIND WAVES;

SPECTROGRAPHS;

FOURIER TRANSFORM; OCEAN WAVE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND WAVE;

EID: 22144466224     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2005.02.008     Document Type: Article

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