Global ocean surface wave simulation using a coupled atmosphere-wave model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6233-6252

  Fan, Yalin ^a,b   Lin, Shian Jiann ^b   Held, Isaac M ^b   Yu, Zhitao ^b,c   Tolman, Hendrik L ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University Corporation for Atmospheric Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Coupled models

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC COASTS; ATMOSPHERE MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; BERING SEA; COUPLED MODELS; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; GLOBAL OCEAN SURFACE; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; LOW BIAS; MODEL SIMULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE ALTIMETER MEASUREMENTS; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; WAVE RESPONSE; WAVEWATCH-III; WIND RESPONSE;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SURFACE WAVES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WATER WAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; GRAVITY WAVE; NOAA SATELLITE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SURFACE WAVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84867685139     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00621.1     Document Type: Article

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