Abstract: Estimates of the ocean wave directional spectrum may be extracted from observations of surface vertical acceleration and slope made with a pitch/roll buoy. The analysis requires the specification of a parametrical model ...

Abstract: The problem of extracting directional spectra from observed, multi-component wave data has two facets: 1) the observations provide information only on a finite number of integral properties of the wave field; hence the ...

Abstract: A sophisticated analysis technique is applied to a subset of pitch-roll buoy data collected by the research vessels Gilliss and Quadra during the GARP Tropical Atlantic Experiment (GATE) in September 1974. The procedure ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the solution of inverse problems involving complex numerical models of the oceanic general circulation and large datasets. The goal of these inverse problems is to find values for model inputs consistent ...

Abstract: A general circulation model and North Atlantic climatological data of temperature salinity, wind stress, evaporation minus precipitation, and air?sea heat fluxes are used to examine the possibility of solving inverse ...