Changes in global ocean wave heights as projected using multimodel CMIP5 simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1026-1034

  Wang, Xiaolan L ^a   Feng, Yang ^a   Swail, Val R ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change; CMIP5 simulations; generalized extreme value distribution; multivariate regression; ocean wave height; statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL; TROPICS; WIND POWER;

CMIP5 SIMULATIONS; GENERALIZED EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; WAVE HEIGHTS;

WATER WAVES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL OCEAN; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND POWER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 84893840825     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058650     Document Type: Article

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