An operational search and rescue model for the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 69, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 99-113

  Breivik, Øyvind ^a   Allen, Arthur A ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b Office of Search and Rescue   (United States)

Author keywords

Leeway; North Atlantic; North Sea; Norwegian Sea; Operational forecasting; Search and rescue; Stochastic modelling; Trajectory modelling

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROBUST CONTROL; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

NORTH SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; STOCHASTIC MODELLING; TRAJECTORY MODELLING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CURRENT VELOCITY; DRIFT BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; METEOROLOGY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STOCHASTICITY; TRAJECTORY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND FORCING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 36148971988     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.02.010     Document Type: Article

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