Willard J. Pierson - Publications

Affiliations: 
City University of New York, New York, NY, United States 
Area:
Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Marine and Ocean Engineering

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1999 Pierson WJ, Jean-Pierre A. Monte Carlo simulations of nonlinear ocean wave records with implications for models of breaking waves Journal of Ship Research. 43: 121-134.  0.311
1999 Jean-Pierre A, Pierson WJ, Groves GW. Stochastic simulation of ocean waves and their effect on microwave scattering Proceedings of Spie - the International Society For Optical Engineering. 3699: 138-149.  0.308
1999 Austin S, Pierson WJ. Mesoscale and synoptic-scale effects on the validation of NSCAT winds by means of data buoy reports Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 104: 11437-11447.  0.472
1999 Jones WL, Cardone VJ, Pierson WJ, Zec J, Rice LP, Cox A, Sylvester WB. NSCAT high-resolution surface wind measurements in Typhoon Violet Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 104: 11247-11259.  0.48
1994 Liu Y, Pierson WJ. Comparisons of Scatterometer Models for the AMI on ERS-1: The Possibility of Systematic Azimuth Angle Biases of Wind Speed and Direction Ieee Transactions On Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 32: 626-635. DOI: 10.1109/36.297980  0.457
1990 Pierson WJ. Examples of, reasons for, and consequences of the poor quality of wind data from ships for the marine boundary layer: implications for remote sensing Journal of Geophysical Research. 95. DOI: 10.1029/Jc095Ic08P13313  0.473
1989 Pierson WJ. Probabilities and statistics for backscatter estimates obtained by a scatterometer Journal of Geophysical Research. 94: 9743-9759. DOI: 10.1029/Jc094Ic07P09743  0.515
1987 Donelan MA, Pierson WJ. Radar scattering and equilibrium ranges in wind-generated waves with application to scatterometry Journal of Geophysical Research. 92: 4971-5029. DOI: 10.1029/Jc092Ic05P04971  0.537
1986 Pierson WJ, Sylvester WB, Donelan MA. Aspects of the determination of winds by means of scatterometry and of the utlization of vector wind data for meteorological forecasts Journal of Geophysical Research. 91: 2263-2272. DOI: 10.1029/Jc091Ic02P02263  0.528
1986 Pierson WJ, Donelan MA. VERIFICATION RESULTS FOR A TWO-SCALE MODEL OF MICROWAVE BACKSCATTER FROM THE SEA SURFACE Digest - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (Igarss). 297-302.  0.345
1986 Donelan MA, Pierson WJ. TWO-SCALE BRAGG SCATTERING MODEL FOR MICROWAVE BACKSCATTER FROM WIND GENERATED WAVES Digest - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (Igarss). 291-296.  0.474
1985 Ross DB, Cardone VJ, Overland J, McPherson RD, Pierson WJ, Yu TW. Oceanic surface winds Advances in Geophysics, Vol. 27. Satellite Oceanic Remote Sensing,. 101-140.  0.454
1984 Pierson WJ, Salfi RE. Probability density function of the crest to trough heights of waves and on the physics of extreme waves including results from hurricane Camille 0.333
1984 Donelan MA, Pierson WJ. Does the scatterometer see wind speed or friction velocity? Frontiers of Remote Sensing of the Oceans and Troposphere From Air and Space Platforms. Symposium, Shoresh, 1984, (Us Nasa, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Al; Nasa-Cp-2303). 75-87.  0.502
1984 Dischel RS, Pierson WJ. Evaluating differences in measured winds during JASIN In: Oceans '84 Conf. &Amp; Expos., Conf. Record, Industry, Government, Education ... Designs For the Future, (Washington, D.C., U. 1.  0.474
1984 Pierson WJ, Sylvester WB, Salfi RE. Synoptic scale wind field properties from the Seasat SASS ( Gulf of Alaska) 0.454
1983 Donelan M, Pierson WJ. The sampling variability of estimates of spectra of wind-generated gravity waves Journal of Geophysical Research. 88: 4381-4392. DOI: 10.1029/Jc088Ic07P04381  0.487
1983 Pierson WJ. Oceanographic and meteorological research based on the data products of Seasat ( Gulf of Alaska) 0.46
1983 Pierson WJ. Oceanographic and meteorological research based on the data products of Seasat ( Gulf of Alaska) 0.46
1982 Pierson WJ. The measurement of the synoptic scale wind over the ocean . DOI: 10.1029/Jc088Ic03P01683  0.517
1982 Schroeder LC, Boggs DH, Dome G, Halberstam IM, Jones WL, Pierson WJ, Wentz FJ. The relationship between wind vector and normalized radar cross section used to derive SEASAT‐A satellite scatterometer winds Journal of Geophysical Research. 87: 3318-3336. DOI: 10.1029/Jc087Ic05P03318  0.516
1982 Jones WL, Schroeder LC, Boggs DH, Bracalente EM, Brown RA, Dome GJ, Pierson WJ, Wentz FJ. The Seasat-A satellite scatterometer - The geophysical evaluation of remotely sensed wind vectors over the ocean Journal of Geophysical Research. 87: 3297-3317. DOI: 10.1029/Jc087Ic05P03297  0.533
1982 Pierson WJ. The measurement of the synoptic scale wind over the ocean 0.478
1982 Pierson WJ. The Spectral Ocean Wave Model (SOWM), a northern hemisphere computer model for specifying and forecasting ocean wave spectra 0.375
1980 Pierson WJ, Peteherych S, Wilkerson JC. The Winds of the Comparison Data Set for the Seasat Gulf of Alaska Experiment Ieee Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 5: 169-176. DOI: 10.1109/JOE.1980.1145462  0.451
1979 Pierson WJ, Salfi RE. A brief summary of verification results for the spectral ocean wave model (SOWM) by means of wave height measurements obtained by Geos 3 Journal of Geophysical Research. 84: 4029-4040. DOI: 10.1029/Jb084Ib08P04029  0.501
1978 Pierson WJ. Verification procedures for the SEASAT measurements of the vector wind with the SASS 0.369
1977 Pierson WJ, Cardone NJ. Ocean surface winds from Seasat - A In: Proc. 9th Annual Offshore Technol. Conf., (Houston, U.S.a., May 2-5, 1977). 1: 303-310.  0.403
1976 Cardone VJ, Pierson WJ, Ward EG. HINDCASTING THE DIRECTIONAL SPECTRA OF HURRICANE-GENERATED WAVES Jpt, Journal of Petroleum Technology. 28: 385-394.  0.434
1976 Pierson WJ, Salfi RE. The temporal and spatial variability of power from ocean waves along the west coast of North America 0.308
1975 CARDONE VJ, PIERSON WJ, WARD EG. HINDCASTING THE DIRECTIONAL SPECTRA OF HURRICANE GENERATED WAVES Proc. 7th. Annual Offshore Technol. Conf. (Houston, Texas). 2.  0.344
1973 PIERSON WJ, STACY RA. THE ELEVATION, SLOPE, AND CURVATURE SPECTRA OF A WIND ROUGHENED SEA SURFACE 0.521
1972 Chao Y, Pierson WJ. Experimental studies of the refraction of uniform wave trains and transient wave groups near a straight caustic Journal of Geophysical Research. 77: 4545-4554. DOI: 10.1029/Jc077I024P04545  0.403
1967 Pierson WJ. Importance of the atmospheric boundary layer over the oceans in synoptic scale meteorology Physics of Fluids. 10.  0.475
1964 Pierson WJ. The interpretation of wave spectrums in terms of the wind profile instead of the wind measured at a constant height Journal of Geophysical Research. 69: 5191-5203. DOI: 10.1029/Jz069I024P05191  0.583
1964 Pierson WJ, Moskowitz L. A proposed spectral form for fully developed wind seas based on the similarity theory of S. A. Kitaigorodskii Journal of Geophysical Research. 69: 5181-5190. DOI: 10.1029/Jz069I024P05181  0.525
1962 Bretschneider CL, Crutcher HL, Darbyshire J, Neumann G, Pierson WJ, Walden H, Wilson BW. Data for high wave conditions observed by the OWS "Weather Reporter" in December 1959 Deutsche Hydrographische Zeitschrift. 15: 243-255. DOI: 10.1007/BF02314740  0.31
1961 Pierson WJ, Fife P. Some nonlinear properties of long-crested periodic waves with lengths near 2.44 centimeters Journal of Geophysical Research. 66: 163-179. DOI: 10.1029/Jz066I001P00163  0.4
1959 Pierson WJ. A note on the growth of the spectrum of wind-generated gravity waves as determined by non-linear considerations Journal of Geophysical Research. 64: 1007-1011. DOI: 10.1029/Jz064I008P01007  0.496
1959 Pierson WJ. A study of wave forecasting methods and of the height of a fully developed sea on the basis of some wave records obtained by the O.W.S. Weather Explorer during a storm at sea Deutsche Hydrographische Zeitschrift. 12: 244-259. DOI: 10.1007/BF02073152  0.515
1957 Neumann G, Pierson WJ. A detailed comparison of theoretical wave spectra and wave forecasting methods Deutsche Hydrographische Zeitschrift. 10: 134-146. DOI: 10.1007/BF02020059  0.405
1955 Pierson WJ. Wind generated gravity waves Advances in Geophysics. 2: 93-178. DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2687(08)60312-X  0.534
1954 Pierson WJ. An Interpretation of the observable properties of ‘sea’ waves in terms of the energy spectrum of the Gaussian Record Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 35: 747-757. DOI: 10.1029/TR035i005p00747  0.343
1951 Pierson WJ. Ocean wave studies Science. 114: 3.  0.345
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