A synthetic trapped-fetch wave climatology for the North Atlantic and Eastern Pacific

27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  MacAfee, Allan W ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EASTERN PACIFIC; EXTREME WAVES; LAGRANGIAN; LONG-TERM TREND; MODEL INPUTS; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODEL-BASED; NORTH ATLANTIC; TRAPPED-FETCH WAVES; WAVE INFORMATION; WAVE METHOD; WIND MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES; RISK MANAGEMENT;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 36549086036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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