Interpreting century-scale changes in southern north sea storm surge climate derived from coupled model simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 6234-6247

  Howard, Tom ^a   Lowe, Jason ^a   Horsburgh, Kevin ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DATA; COUPLED MODELS; DOWN-SCALING; ENGLAND; EXTREME EVENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LINEAR SCALING; MEAN SEA LEVEL; MODEL-DRIVEN; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; PRIMARY EFFECTS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL MODEL; RIVER THAMES; SCALING FACTORS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SIMULATION SYSTEMS; SOUTHERN NORTH SEA; SPEED OF PROPAGATION; STORM SURGES; UNITED KINGDOM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOODS; SEA LEVEL; STORMS; TIME SERIES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SIMULATION; STORM SURGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLAND; NORTH SEA; THAMES ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78650569002     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3520.1     Document Type: Article

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