Establishing confidence in marine forecast systems: The design and skill assessment of the New York Harbor Observation and Prediction System, version 3 (NYHOPS v3)

Proceedings of the International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling

Volumn 388, Issue , 2010, Pages 660-685

  Georgas, Nickitas ^a   Blumberg, Alan F ^a  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Forecasting; Harbors; New Jersey; New York

Indexed keywords

COASTAL OCEAN; EVALUATION METRICS; FORECAST SYSTEMS; HARBORS; HYDRODYNAMIC CONDITIONS; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INDEX OF AGREEMENTS; MODEL RESULTS; NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICES; NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SKILL ASSESSMENT; WATER TEMPERATURES;

DESIGN; ESTUARIES; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORECASTING; HYDRODYNAMICS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE; WATER LEVELS; WATER WAVES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 78951484467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41121(388)39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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