Fifteen years of global wave hindcasts using winds from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts reanalysis: Validating the reanalyzed winds and assessing the wave climate

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C3, 1998, Pages 5477-5492

  Sterl, A ^a,c   Komen, G J ^a,c   Cotton, P D ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c Koninklijk Nederlands M   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECMWF; WAVES; WIND WAVES;

EID: 0031801959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jc03431     Document Type: Article

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