An operational system for predicting hurricane-generated wind waves in the North Atlantic Ocean

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 652-671

  Chao, Yung Y ^a   Alves, Jose Henrique G M ^a,b   Tolman, Hendrik L ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM (GFS); HURRICANE PREDICTION; WIND WAVES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; PREDICTION; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND WAVE; WIND-WAVE INTERACTION;

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

EID: 27544506540     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF851.1     Document Type: Article

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