A probabilistic approach to ship voyage reconstruction in ICOADS

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2233-2247

  Carella, Giulia ^a   Kent, Elizabeth C ^a   Berry, David I ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; marine meteorological data; ocean climate; sea surface temperature; ship data; voyage tracking

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

COMPREHENSIVE OCEAN ATMOSPHERE DATA SET; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MODEL IMPLEMENTATION; OCEAN CLIMATE; POSITION INFORMATION; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

SHIPS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRACKING;

EID: 85017197105     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4492     Document Type: Article

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