Observational changes and trends in northeast Pacific wave records

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Gemmrich, Johannes ^a   Thomas, Bridget ^b   Bouchard, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c NOAA National Data Buoy Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYS; STORMS;

DATA QUALITY; INHOMOGENEITIES; LONG-TERM TREND; OFFSHORE WAVES; RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; STEP CHANGES; STORM WAVES; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE MEASUREMENT; WAVE RECORDS;

WATER WAVES;

BUOY SYSTEM; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; HARDWARE; INHOMOGENEITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 81855212662     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049518     Document Type: Article

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