Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
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Articles | Volume 30, issue 4
Articles | Volume 30, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-30-515-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-30-515-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 30, issue 4
Research article
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21 Nov 2023
Research article |  | 21 Nov 2023

Superstatistical analysis of sea surface currents in the Gulf of Trieste, measured by high-frequency radar, and its relation to wind regimes using the maximum-entropy principle

Sofia Flora, Laura Ursella, and Achim Wirth

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An increasing amount of data allows us to move from low-order moments of fluctuating observations to their PDFs. We found the analytical fat-tailed PDF form (a combination of Gaussian and two-exponential convolutions) for 2 years of sea surface current increments in the Gulf of Trieste, using superstatistics and the maximum-entropy principle twice: on short and longer timescales. The data from different wind regimes follow the same analytical PDF, pointing towards a universal behaviour.
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