Validation of a thirty year wave hindcast using the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis winds

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 70, Issue , 2013, Pages 189-206

  Chawla, Arun ^a   Spindler, Deanna M ^a   Tolman, Hendrik L ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hindcasts; Reanalysis; Validation; Waves; WAVEWATCH III; Wind wave models

Indexed keywords

HINDCASTS; REANALYSIS; VALIDATION; WAVEWATCH-III; WIND-WAVE MODELS;

BUOYS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

BUOY SYSTEM; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATABASE; HINDCASTING; MODEL VALIDATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE MODELING; WIND WAVE;

EID: 84882811726     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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