Spatial statistics of the sea surface in fetch-limited conditions

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1821-1841

  Romero, Leonel ^a   Melville, W Kendall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; oceanic; Probability forecasts models distributions; Statistics; Wave properties; Waves; Wind waves

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; OCEANIC; PROBABILITY FORECASTS/MODELS/DISTRIBUTIONS; WAVE PROPERTIES; WIND WAVES;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIDAR; OCEAN WAVE; PROBABILITY; SEA SURFACE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; WIND WAVE;

GULF OF TEHUANTEPEC; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 82055178603     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4535.1     Document Type: Article

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