The wave climate of Liverpool Bay-observations and modelling

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 639-655

  Wolf, Judith ^a   Brown, Jennifer Mary ^a   Howarth, Michael John ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HF radar; Liverpool Bay; Wave climate; Wave models; Waves

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DIRECTIONAL WAVES; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME WAVE EVENTS; GROUND TRUTH; HF RADARS; HIGH FREQUENCY RADAR; HINDCASTS; INTERANNUAL; INTERDECADAL; LIVERPOOL BAY; MODEL DATA; NEGATIVE BIAS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PHASED ARRAYS; POSITIVE BIAS; RETURN PERIODS; SHALLOW WATERS; STORM TRACK; TIDAL RANGES; TIME-SCALES; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE CURRENT INTERACTION; WAVE MODELS; WAVE PARAMETERS; WAVERIDER;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; INSTRUMENTS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR SYSTEMS; TIDES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; BAY; BUOY SYSTEM; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; EXTREME EVENT; HINDCASTING; HYDRODYNAMICS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RADAR; STORM TRACK; TIDAL CYCLE; TIMESCALE; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPERTY; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION; WIND WAVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ENGLAND; LIVERPOOL BAY; SOUTH WALES; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 79957924329     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0376-9     Document Type: Article

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