A high-resolution hindcast of wind and waves for the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the Barents Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Reistad, Magnar ^a   Breivik, Øyvind ^a   Haakenstad, Hilde ^a   Aarnes, Ole Johan ^a   Furevik, Birgitte R ^a   Bidlot, Jean Raymond ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS;

BARENTS SEA; DOWN-SCALING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; HINDCASTS; IN-SITU; MEAN VALUES; MEAN WAVE PERIOD; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH SEA; POLAR LOWS; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA STATE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SURFACE FEATURE; WAVE HINDCAST; WAVE MODELS; WIND SPEED; WIND VECTORS;

WATER WAVES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOWNSCALING; HINDCASTING; LIFE CYCLE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND FORCING; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; NORTH SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 79958056043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006402     Document Type: Article

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