Variations in extreme wave heights and wave directions in the north-eastern Baltic Sea

Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 182-192

  Räämet, Andrus ^a   Soomere, Tarmo ^a   Zaitseva Pärnaste, Inga ^a,b  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baltic sea; Climate change; Visual wave observations; Wave modelling; Wind waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956682314     PISSN: 17366046     EISSN: 17367530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3176/proc.2010.2.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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