A physical-based statistical method for modeling ocean wave heights

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 59-75

  Casas Prat, Mercè ^a   Wang, Xiaolan L ^b   Sierra, Joan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Mediterranean Sea; Statistical downscaling; Wave height

Indexed keywords

FIRST ORDER DERIVATIVES; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING (RCM); SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; WAVE HEIGHTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LINEAR REGRESSION; MODELS; SEA LEVEL; STATISTICAL METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

WATER WAVES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWNSCALING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE HEIGHT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84888417747     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.10.008     Document Type: Article

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