Recent increase in summertime extreme wave heights in the western North Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Sasaki, W ^a   Iwasaki, S I ^a   Matsuura, T ^a   Iizuka, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEAWATER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES; WIND;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (EOF) ANALYSIS; EXTREME WAVE HEIGHTS; TROPICAL CYCLONES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EXTREME EVENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SUMMER; WAVE HEIGHT;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); WORLD;

EID: 25844437006     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023722     Document Type: Article

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