A 26-Year Time Series of Monthly Mean Winds Over the Oceans: Part 1 - A Statistical Verification of Computed Surface Winds Over the North Pacific and North Atlantic

• Main Author: Larson,Sigurd Erling
• Other Authors: ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION RESEARCH FACILITY (NAVY) MONTEREY CALIF
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1975
• Subjects: Meteorology; *WIND; *NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; *NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN SURFACE; PROBABILITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ACCURACY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TABLES(DATA); WIND VELOCITY; CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; MARINE METEOROLOGY; PERIODIC VARIATIONS; *Ocean stations; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA010122; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA010122

The increasing interest in long term (inter-annual) weather changes and their relation to processes in the ocean is begining 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 hindcast 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. See also Part 2, dated Apr 75, AD-A010 123.