Energy density spectrum

From Glossary of Meteorology



energy density spectrum

(Sometimes called energy spectrum.) The square of the amplitude of the (complex) Fourier transform of an aperiodic function.

Thus, if f(t) is the given function, its Fourier transform is
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and the energy density spectrum is
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. It is assumed that the total energy
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is finite.


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