The link between wave height variability in the north atlantic and the storm track activity in the last four decades

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 377-388

  Lozano, Ignacio ^a   Swail, Val ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DATA SET; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STORM TRACK; WAVE HEIGHT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 10444260541     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3137/ao.400401     Document Type: Article

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