Is the extreme wave climate in the NE Pacific increasing?

MTS/IEEE Seattle, OCEANS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mendez, Fernando J ^a   Izaguirre, Cristina ^a   Menendez, Melisa ^a   Reguero, Borja G ^a   Losada, Inigo J ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS INSTITUTE IH CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOY MEASUREMENTS; CLIMATE PATTERNS; DATA SETS; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME VALUE; EXTREME WAVE HEIGHTS; EXTREME WAVES; HINDCASTS; LONG-TERM TREND; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; MEAN VALUES; SATELLITE MISSION; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TIME-DEPENDENT;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS; WATER WAVES;

BUOYS;

EID: 78651286190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2010.5664314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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