Impact of tropical cyclones on modeled extreme wind-wave climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1393-1401

  Timmermans, Ben ^a   Stone, Dáithí ^a   Wehner, Michael ^a   Krishnan, Harinarayan ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; extremes; modeling; tropical cyclone; wind waves

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; MODELS; STORMS; WATER WAVES;

CLIMATE; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; EXTREME WAVE HEIGHTS; EXTREMES; GLOBAL WIND-WAVE CLIMATE; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND WAVE;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WAVE HEIGHT; WIND FORCING; WIND WAVE;

EID: 85012277289     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071681     Document Type: Article

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