Historical trends in Southern Ocean storminess: Long-term variability of extreme wave heights at Cape Sorell, Tasmania

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Hemer, Mark A ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Southern Ocean; surface waves; wave climate

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; OCEAN CURRENTS; RHENIUM COMPOUNDS; STORMS; SURFACE WAVES;

EXTREME WAVE HEIGHTS; HISTORICAL TRENDS; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; PEAK OVER THRESHOLD; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SYNOPTIC STORMS; WAVE CLIMATES;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 85027092375     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044595     Document Type: Article

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