Fewer large waves projected for eastern Australia due to decreasing storminess

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 283-286

  Dowdy, Andrew J ^a   Mills, Graham A ^a   Timbal, Bertrand ^a   Wang, Yang ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

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ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CYCLONE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; OCEAN WAVE; STORM SURGE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

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EID: 84897036781     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2142     Document Type: Article

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