Past to future extreme events in Liverpool Bay: Model projections from 1960-2100

Climatic Change

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 365-391

  Brown, Jennifer M ^a   Wolf, Judith ^a   Souza, Alejandro J ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOY LOCATION; CLIMATE PROJECTION; COASTAL FLOODS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME WAVES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MODEL SENSITIVITY; PRESSURE DATA; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SWELL WAVES; USE-MODEL; WAVE MODELS; WAVEFIELDS; WIND PATTERNS;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BAY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTREME EVENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STORM SURGE; SWELL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVE FIELD; WAVE MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER STATION; WIND PROFILE;

ENGLAND; HEYSHAM; LANCASHIRE; LIVERPOOL BAY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84856697991     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0145-2     Document Type: Article

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