Modeling and predicting complex space-time structures and patterns of coastal wind fields

Environmetrics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 449-464

  Fuentes, Montserrat ^a,b   Chen, Li ^a   Davis, Jerry M ^a   Lackmann, Gary M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Fourier transform; Geostatistics; Meteorological mesoscale model (MM5); Non separable models; Non stationary models; Wind fields

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; WIND;

EID: 22344449439     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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