THE USE OF THE KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST TO DETERMINE THE EXISTENCE OF A FULLY DEVELOPED SEA. PART I. THE MEAN SPECTRUM FOR A FULLY DEVELOPED SEA RECORDED AT ARGUS ISLAND. PART II.

It is shown that a fully developed sea considered as a stationary Gaussian process produces spectral values which exhibit an x squared distribution for each frequency band. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness-of-fit is explained and applied to ARGUS ISLAND ocean wave data at each frequency band. A suffi...

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Main Author: Manasseri, Richard J.
Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE NSTL STATION MS
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1967
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Statistics and Probability
(*OCEAN WAVES
BERMUDA)
OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA
WIND
VELOCITY
MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
TOWERS
ARGUS ISLAND
AUTUMN
KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
SEA STATES
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0818909
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Summary:It is shown that a fully developed sea considered as a stationary Gaussian process produces spectral values which exhibit an x squared distribution for each frequency band. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness-of-fit is explained and applied to ARGUS ISLAND ocean wave data at each frequency band. A sufficient number of frequency bands exhibit an x squared distribution indicating that a stationary process is being sampled and confirming synoptic evidence for the existence of a fully developed sea. The form of the mean spectrum for this data is also discussed. (Author)

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