A Global Ocean Wave (GOW) calibrated reanalysis from 1948 onwards

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 65, Issue , 2012, Pages 38-55

  Reguero, B G ^a   Menendez M ^a   Mendez F J ^a   Minguez R ^a   Losada, I J ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS INSTITUTE IH CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calibration; Outliers; Reanalysis; Validation; Wave climate; Waves

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER DATA; COASTAL APPLICATIONS; DATA SETS; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; GLOBAL OCEAN; HINDCASTS; HISTORICAL DATA; INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; OUTLIERS; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATA; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; THIRD GENERATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VALIDATION; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE HEIGHTS; WIND FORCING; WIND WAVE;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ENGINEERING; STATISTICS; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ALTIMETRY; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; OCEAN WAVE; SATELLITE DATA; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WAVE CLIMATE; WIND WAVE;

EID: 84859882913     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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