A 44-year high-resolution ocean and atmospheric hindcast for the Mediterranean Basin developed within the HIPOCAS Project

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 827-842

  Ratsimandresy, A W ^a   Sotillo, M G ^a   Carretero Albiach, J C ^a   Alvarez Fanjul E ^a   Hajji, H ^b  

^a Puertos del Estado   (Spain)

^b Meteomer ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Hindcast; HIPOCAS; Mediterranean Basin

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; WATER LEVELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATES; ATMOSPHERIC DATABASES; CLIMATIC VARIABILITIES; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS; EUROPEAN; HIGH-RESOLUTION; HINDCAST; HINDCASTS; HIPOCAS; HOMOGENEOUS FORCING; IN-SITU; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITIES; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN BASINS; NUMERICAL MODELS; ONE HANDED; REANALYSIS; SEA STATES; SPECTRAL; STORM SURGES; WAVE MODEL WAM; WAVE STATES; WESTERN MEDITERRANEANS;

OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; HINDCASTING; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; SEA LEVEL; STORM SURGE; WAVE MODELING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 51649126801     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2008.02.025     Document Type: Article

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