Wave Extremes in the northeast Atlantic

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1529-1543

  Aarnes, Ole Johan ^a   Breivik, Øyvind ^a   Reistad, Magnar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Oceanic; Waves

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME VALUE STATISTICS; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE; GEV DISTRIBUTIONS; HINDCASTS; LARGEST-ORDER STATISTICS; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; OCEANIC; QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES; RETURN VALUE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; STATIONARY MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVES;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; EXTREME EVENT; GEOSTATISTICS; HINDCASTING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WAVE HEIGHT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 84858259419     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00132.1     Document Type: Article

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