Detection and attribution of climate change signal in ocean wind waves

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1578-1591

  Dobrynin, Mikhail ^a   Murawski, Jens ^b   Baehr, Johanna ^a   Ilyina, Tatiana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); OCEANOGRAPHY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES; WIND;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTIONS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HISTORICAL PERIODS; MODELING VARIABILITY; NATURAL VARIABILITY; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; OCEAN WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND VELOCITY; WIND WAVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84922780773     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00664.1     Document Type: Article

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