Responses of summertime extreme wave heights to local climate variations in the East China Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Yong, Huang ^a,b   Baoshu, Yin ^a   Perrie, William ^c   Yijun, Hou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEAWATER; WATER WAVES; WIND;

CLIMATE VARIATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING; WIND FIELD;

EAST CHINA SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 57049116625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC004732     Document Type: Article

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