Changes in wave climate over the northwest European shelf seas during the last 12,000 years

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Neill, S P ^b   Scourse, J D ^b   Bigg, G R ^a   Uehara, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; WATER WAVES;

ANNUAL MEAN; BED SHEAR STRESSS; EUROPEAN SHELF; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; MODEL RESULTS; NORTH SEA; ORBITAL VELOCITIES; PEAK WAVE HEIGHT; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PROCESS; SHELF SEAS; SPECTRAL WAVE MODELS; TIME SLICE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; WATER DEPTH; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE HEIGHTS; WIND EVENTS;

SHEAR STRESS;

BATHYMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER DEPTH; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 67650973842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005288     Document Type: Article

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