translate English to French: Indeed, previous work (e.g., Fitzgerald et al., 1994) has shown that the relationship between leeway speed and wind speed is highly linear and that, typically, the amount of variance explained by wind speed in linear regression models (at zero lag) has often been found to be greater than 0.90 (r2 > 0.90), given sufficient high quality data.
Pour qu’ils soient utiles dans les opérations, ces modèles doivent exprimer la dérive éolienne en termes de prédicteurs prêts à être utilisés.