Patterns and cycles in the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis wind and wave data

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 70, Issue , 2013, Pages 207-220

  Stopa, Justin E ^a   Cheung, Kwok Fai ^a   Tolman, Hendrik L ^b   Chawla, Arun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate cycles; Climate Forecast System Reanalysis; Wave hindcasting; Wave modeling; WAVEWATCH III

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CYCLE; HINDCASTING; REANALYSIS; WAVE MODELING; WAVEWATCH-III;

CLIMATOLOGY;

FORECASTING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CYCLE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HINDCASTING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY; WIND WAVE;

EID: 84882889261     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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