Sensitivity of ferry services to the western isles of Scotland to changes in wave climate

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 361-370

  Woolf, David K ^a   Gibb, Stuart ^b   Coll, John ^a   Challenor, Peter G ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITIES; FERRY ROUTES; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP); INTER-ANNUAL VARIABILITY;

FERRY BOATS; MARINE ENGINEERING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER WAVES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 11244250695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2004-51427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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