A statistical verification of a ten year series of computed surface wind conditions over the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans.
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Authors
Larson, Sigurd Erling
Subjects
quasi-geostrophic wind
computer model
climatology
synoptic scale
North Pacific Ocean
North Atlantic Ocean
ocean station observations
ten year trend
frequency distribution
spectra
correlation
regression
computer model
climatology
synoptic scale
North Pacific Ocean
North Atlantic Ocean
ocean station observations
ten year trend
frequency distribution
spectra
correlation
regression
Advisors
Jung, Glenn H.
Date of Issue
1974-12
Date
December 1974
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
The increasing interest in long term (inter-annual)
weather changes and their relation to processes in the ocean
is beginning to illuminate the need for and the lack of long
term records of physically significant variables which occur
over the vast oceanic regions of the northern hemisphere.
An attempt is made here to evaluate the accuracy of a hind
cast time series of surface wind vector components and speeds
for the period of January 1960 through December 1969.
The quasi-geostrophic model used to calculate these
records is described as well as the twelve-hourly surface
pressure data which were used as input. The central moments
of the probability distributions of the computed records are
compared to those of corresponding time series observed on
Ocean Station Vessels. Linear correlation coefficients
between observed and computed records were found to average
0.81 for the components of the wind vector and 0.65 for the
wind speed. Regression relations between computed and
observed records also are presented. Spectral analysis of
low pass filtered records showed coherence between observed
and computed records increased with decreasing frequency.
The accuracy of the computed records in low latitudes also is
estimated.
Type
Thesis
Description
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Department
Oceanography
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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