Forecasting ocean wave energy: The ECMWF wave model and time series methods

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1089-1099

  Reikard, Gordon ^a   Pinson, Pierre ^b,c   Bidlot, Jean Raymond ^b  

^a Leap Wireless ^*  (United States)

^b European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasts   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Ocean wave energy; Physics based models; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

COMBINED MODEL; CONVERGENCE POINTS; DATA SETS; EUROPEAN CENTER FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GULF OF MEXICO; LOWER FREQUENCIES; OCEAN-WAVE ENERGY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSICS-BASED MODELS; POWER GRIDS; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; STATISTICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TIME SERIES METHOD; TIME VARYING PARAMETER; WAVE ENERGY FLUX; WAVE MODELS; WAVE PERIOD;

NEURAL NETWORKS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES; TIME VARYING NETWORKS; WATER WAVES; WAVES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ENERGY FLUX; OCEAN WAVE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE MODELING; WAVE POWER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79959999421     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2011.04.009     Document Type: Article

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