Characterising spectral sea wave conditions with statistical clustering of actual spectra

Applied Ocean Research

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 332-342

  Hamilton, L J ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Statistical clustering; Wave spectra

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER MEMBERSHIPS; COASTAL SITES; DATA SETS; MEDOIDS; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; OUTLIER DETECTION; PRIORI INFORMATION; SEA BREEZE; SEA WAVES; SHALLOW WATERS; SHAPE PROPERTY; SPECTRAL PARAMETERS; SPECTRAL PEAK; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL SHAPES; STATISTICAL CLUSTERING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MEASURES; STATISTICAL SAMPLING; WAVE SPECTRA; WAVERIDER;

FREQUENCY BANDS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SAMPLING; STATISTICS; WATER WAVES;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; OCEAN WAVE; OUTLIER; SEA BREEZE; SHALLOW WATER; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WAVE SPECTRUM;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77956339154     PISSN: 01411187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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