Performance assessment of the database downscaled ocean waves (DOW) on Santa Catarina coast, South Brazil

This work presents a validation of wave parameters from the new sixty years Downscaled Ocean Waves (DOW) reanalysis database. This study compares quantiles of the Gumbel distribution of Hs (significant wave height) and Tp (peak period) from simulated data with an 11 months' time series obtained...

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Main Authors: Paula G. Silva, Antonio H.F. Klein, Mauricio González, Omar Gutierrez, Antonio Espejo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2015-06-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652015000200623&lng=en&tlng=en