Coupled wave and surge modelling for the eastern Irish Sea and implications for model wind-stress

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1329-1342

  Brown, Jennifer M ^a   Wolf, Judith ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Liverpool Bay; POLCOMS; Surface wind stress; WAM; Wave current interaction; Wave tide surge modelling

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HINDCASTING; MODEL VALIDATION; STORM SURGE; TIDE; WAVE MODELING; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRISH SEA; LIVERPOOL [ENGLAND]; SEFTON; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349088288     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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