North atlantic wave height trends as reconstructed from the 20th century reanalysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Xiaolan L ^a   Feng, Yang ^a   Swail, V R ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL;

20TH CENTURY; ANNUAL MEAN; DATA SETS; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; MIDLATITUDES; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION MODELS; NORTH ATLANTIC; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE HEIGHTS;

WATER WAVES;

DATA SET; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WAVE HEIGHT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84866978485     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053381     Document Type: Article

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