waves                  package:mAr                  R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Ocean wave height measurements from an wire wave gauge and an
     infrared wave gauge

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(waves)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 4096 observations on the following 2 variables.

     _w_i_r_e._g_a_u_g_e height of ocean waves from wire wave gauge 

     _i_r._g_a_u_g_e height of ocean waves from infrared wave gauge

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     Time series of  ocean wave height measurements (sampling = 1/ 30
     seconds)

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Applied Physics Laboratory (Andy Jessup)

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Jessup, A. T., Melville, W. K., Keller, W. C. (1991). Breaking
     Waves Affecting Microwave Backscatter: Detection and Verification
     (1991). Journal of Geophysical Research, 96, C11, 20,547-59.

     Percival, D. B. (1993). Spectral Analysis of Univariate and
     Bivariate Time Series, Chapter 11 of "Statistical Methods for
     Physical Science," Stanford, J. L.  and Vardeman, S. B. (Eds),
     Academic Press

