Spatial models for variability of significant wave height in world oceans

International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-7

  Baxevani, Anastassia ^a   Borgel, Cédric ^b   Rychlik, Igor ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Gaussian random fields; Isotropy; Random surface; Satellite data; Significant wave height; Stationary

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORMS; WATER WAVES;

GAUSSIAN RANDOM FIELD; SATELLITE DATA; WAVE HEIGHT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORMS; WATER WAVES;

CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; ISOTROPY; MODELING; RANDOM WAVE; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SPATIAL VARIATION; STANDING WAVE; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

EID: 41849093377     PISSN: 10535381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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