W. C. Thacker

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1975

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NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories(Current)

University of Miami

Duke University

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

W. C. Thacker is an author at NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories specializing in engineering, earth science, and oceanography.

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EngineeringEarth ScienceOceanographyGeographyPhysical OceanographyUncertainty QuantificationMeteorologyNumerical AnalysisData ScienceOcean Monitoring

Publications per year

1975–2019

Publications

Some exact solutions to the nonlinear shallow-water wave equations

W. C. Thacker · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1981 · 392 citations

Parabolic Basins, Engineering, Nonlinear Wave Propagation +14

Fitting dynamics to data

W. C. Thacker, Robert Bryan Long · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1988 · 267 citations

Engineering, Wind Stress Observations, Coastal Modeling +22

The role of the Hessian matrix in fitting models to measurements

W. C. Thacker · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1989 · 247 citations

Measurement Theory, Parameter Estimation, Engineering +19

An Optimal-Control/Adjoint-Equations Approach to Studying the Oceanic General Circulation

Eli Tziperman, W. C. Thacker · Journal of Physical Oceanography · 1989 · 130 citations · Full text

Numerical Analysis, Meteorology, Ocean Monitoring +12

Fitting models to inadequate data by enforcing spatial and temporal smoothness

W. C. Thacker · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1988 · 93 citations

Engineering, Spatial Uncertainty, Spatiotemporal Database +17

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