Wave climate variability in the North-East Atlantic Ocean over the last six decades

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 31, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 120-131

  Dodet, Guillaume ^a,b   Bertin, Xavier ^a   Taborda, Rui ^b  

^a NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Long term trends; NAO index; North East Atlantic Ocean; Wave climate variability

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; HINDCASTS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LONG-PERIOD WAVES; LONG-TERM TREND; MEAN WAVE DIRECTIONS; NAO INDEX; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; NORTHERN LATITUDES; OCEAN SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES; OPEN OCEAN; PEAK PERIOD; PERIOD WAVES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SOUTHERN LATITUDES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPECTRAL WAVE MODELS; STUDY AREAS; THREE PARAMETERS; TREND ANALYSIS; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE PARAMETERS; WIND FIELD;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; CORRELATION METHODS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEAN WAVE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WAVE CLIMATE; WIND FIELD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 71849108698     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.10.010     Document Type: Article

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