Wave climate of the Adriatic Sea: A future scenario simulation

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2065-2076

  Benetazzo, A ^a   Fedele, F ^b   Carniel, S ^a   Ricchi, A ^c   Bucchignani, E ^d   Sclavo, M ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^d ITALIAN AEROSPACE RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOWNSCALING; EXTREME EVENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND FIELD; WIND WAVE;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84863306861     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-12-2065-2012     Document Type: Article

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