The deconvolution as a method to deal with gaps in ocean wave measurements

This work introduces the deconvolution as a technique to reconstruct missing information in data. While the method was originally developed for ocean waves, it will be useful in a wider range of applications where gaps in data may alter the statistics or spikes have to be eliminated without removing extreme values. For the application to ocean waves, it is estimated that gaps as long as half of the peak period may be reconstructed well. It is possible to reconstruct data of longer gaps, however, in total the amount of missing points should be less than 50% of all points and the missing data should not be clustered. •Reconstruct missing information in data.•Interpolation and Removal of spikes by Deconvolution.•Formulation of missing data as convolution.