Variability of multivariate wave climate in Latin America and the Caribbean

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 100, Issue , 2013, Pages 70-84

  Reguero, B G ^a   Mendez F J ^a   Losada, I J ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS INSTITUTE IH CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Inter annual variability; Long term trends; Ocean waves; Seasonality; Wave direction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE INDEX; CLIMATE PATTERNS; CORRELATION PATTERNS; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; DIRECTIONAL WAVES; ENERGY FLUXES; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN; LONG-TERM CHANGES; LONG-TERM TREND; MEAN ENERGY; REANALYSIS; SEA STATE; SEASONALITY; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL CHANGE; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE CLIMATOLOGIES; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE PARAMETERS;

CHEMICAL DETECTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; WATER WAVES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL ZONE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENERGY FLUX; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MODEL VALIDATION; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 84868313342     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.09.005     Document Type: Article

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