Sensitivity assessment of wave heights to surface forcing in Cook Inlet, Alaska

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Singhal, Gaurav ^a,b   Panchang, Vijay G ^a,b   Nelson, James A ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cook Inlet; Coupled wind wave current modeling; Environmental fluid dynamics code (EFDC); Sensitivity analysis; Simulating waves nearshore (SWAN)

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CIRCULATION MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW VELOCITY; FORECASTING METHOD; NOAA SATELLITE; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ALASKA; COOK INLET; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880751652     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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