Escalating extremes over descending trends of the northern baltic proper wave fields

Solutions to Coastal Disasters Congress 2008 - Proceedings of the Solutions to Coastal Disasters Congress 2008

Volumn 312, Issue , 2008, Pages 129-138

  Soomere, Tarmo ^a   Healy, Terry ^b  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; STORMS;

ANNUAL MEANS; BALTIC SEAS; EXTREME WAVES; INTER-ANNUAL VARIATIONS; WAVE CONDITIONS; WAVE FIELDS; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE PROPERTIES; WAVE STATISTICS;

TIME SERIES;

EID: 57649095769     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40968(312)12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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