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.

Abstract

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)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0818909

Entities

People

  • Richard J. Manasseri

Organizations

  • Naval Oceanographic Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Science
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Frequency Shift
  • Gaussian Processes
  • Information Science
  • Ocean Waves
  • Spectra
  • Stationary
  • Stationary Processes
  • Waves

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Regression Analysis.