Advancing wind-waves climate science: The COWCLIP project

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 791-796

  Hemer, Mark A ^a   Wang, Xiaolan L ^b   Weisssse, Ralf ^c   Swail, Val R ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PARAMETERS; CLIMATE PROJECTION; CLIMATE RESEARCH; CLIMATE SCIENCE; COMMUNITY IS; CURRENT STATUS; DATA SETS; INTERCOMPARISONS; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE RECORDS; WORKING GROUPS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 84863713632     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00184.1     Document Type: Article

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