Inter-annual variability and longer-term changes in the wave climate of Western Australia between 1970 and 2009

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-76

  Bosserelle, Cyprien ^a   Pattiaratchi, Charitha ^a   Haigh, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Southern Indian Ocean; Wave climate; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; COASTAL REGIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; MEAN WAVE DIRECTIONS; PEAK PERIOD; POSITIVE POLARITY; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STORM TRACK; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE CONDITIONS; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE HINDCAST; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

COASTAL ZONES; OCEAN CURRENTS; STORMS;

WATER WAVES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; COAST; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE HEIGHT;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84861096834     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0487-3     Document Type: Article

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