Seasonal coastal sea level prediction using a dynamical model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 6747-6753

  McIntosh, Peter C ^a   Church, John A ^a   Miles, Elaine R ^b   Ridgway, Ken ^a   Spillman, Claire M ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

El Ni o; ENSO; interannual climate variability; sea level

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ENGINEERING; FORECASTING; MARKOV PROCESSES; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COASTAL COMMUNITIES; ENSO; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; INTERANNUAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELS; SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS;

SEA LEVEL;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COASTAL ZONE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MARKOV CHAIN; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIMESCALE;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84941742619     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065091     Document Type: Article

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