Climate and variability bias adjustment of climate model-derived winds for a southeast Australian dynamical wave model

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-104

  Hemer, Mark A ^a   McInnes, Kathleen L ^a   Ranasinghe, Roshanka ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate model; Dynamic downscaling; Wind wave climate

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; AUSTRALIA; BIVARIATE; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DOWN-SCALING; DYNAMIC DOWNSCALING; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HINDCASTS; MEAN-WINDS; QUIKSCAT; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; STORM SYSTEMS; STORM WAVES; STUDY AREAS; SURFACE WINDS; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE DATA; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE HINDCAST; WAVE MODELS; WIND CLIMATE; WIND COMPONENTS; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND WAVE; WIND-WAVE MODELS;

BENCHMARKING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STORMS; WAVES; WIND;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; QUIKSCAT; SEASONAL VARIATION; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE MODELING; WIND WAVE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84861097966     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0486-4     Document Type: Article

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