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Various types of texture distributions have been developed so that the CGMs can cover sea clutter in different conditions. In this paper, the Weibull distributions are used to model textures of sea clutter, and the CGM with Weibull-distributed textures is used to derive the CGWB distributions, a new type of biparametric distribution. Like the classic K-distributions and Compound-Gaussian with lognormal texture (CGLN) distributions, the biparametric CGWB distributions without analytical expressions can be represented by the closed-form improper integral. Further, the properties of the CGWB distributions are investigated, and four moment-based estimators using sample moments, fractional-order sample moments, and generalized sample moments are given to estimate the parameters of the CGWB distributions. Their performance is compared by simulated clutter data. Moreover, measured sea clutter data are used to examine the suitability of the CGWB distributions. 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