Wave hindcast for the New Zealand region: Deep-water wave climate

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 589-612

  Gorman, Richard M ^a   Bryan, Karin R ^a,b   Laing, Andrew K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

New Zealand regional wave hindcast; Satellite wave data; Wave climate; Wave modelling

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER; HINDCASTING; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0346127476     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: 11758805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2003.9517191     Document Type: Article

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