Versatile harmonic tidal analysis: Improvements and applications

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 806-817

  Foreman, Mike G G ^a   Cherniawsky, J Y ^a   Ballantyne, V A ^b  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^b Institut Maurice Lamontagne   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION MATRIX; DATA DROPOUT; ERROR ESTIMATES; GROUND-TRACK; INPUT DATAS; LEAST SQUARE; MATRIX; MULTI-YEAR DATA; OCEAN SCIENCE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TIDAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERROR CORRECTION; FOURIER SERIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES; WORD PROCESSING;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OCEAN TIDE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SOFTWARE; TIME SERIES;

EID: 70349190669     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHO615.1     Document Type: Article

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