Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress

S Abdalla, AA Kolahchi, M Ablain, S Adusumilli… - Advances in Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
In 2018 we celebrated 25 years of development of radar altimetry, and the progress
achieved by this methodology in the fields of global and coastal oceanography, hydrology …

Wind-wave climate changes and their impacts

M Casas-Prat, MA Hemer, G Dodet, J Morim… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Wind-waves have an important role in Earth system dynamics through air–sea interactions
and are key drivers of coastal and offshore hydro-morphodynamics that affect communities …

ICOADS Release 3.0: a major update to the historical marine climate record

E Freeman, SD Woodruff, SJ Worley… - International Journal …, 2017 - nora.nerc.ac.uk
We highlight improvements to the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data
Set (ICOADS) in the latest Release 3.0 (R3. 0; covering 1662–2014). ICOADS is the most …

Intercomparison of wind and wave data from the ECMWF Reanalysis Interim and the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

JE Stopa, KF Cheung - Ocean Modelling, 2014 - Elsevier
The recent release of the ECMWF Reanalysis Interim (ERA-I) and NCEP Climate Forecast
System Reanalysis (CFSR) allows for studies of global climate and its cycles with …

[HTML][HTML] A global view on the wind sea and swell climate and variability from ERA-40

A Semedo, K Sušelj, A Rutgersson… - Journal of Climate, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
In this paper a detailed global climatology of wind-sea and swell parameters, based on the
45-yr European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Re-Analysis (ERA-40) wave …

Global ocean wave fields show consistent regional trends between 1980 and 2014 in a multi-product ensemble

L Erikson, J Morim, M Hemer, I Young… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Historical trends in the direction and magnitude of ocean surface wave height, period, or
direction are debated due to diverse data, time-periods, or methodologies. Using a …

Observing sea states

F Ardhuin, JE Stopa, B Chapron, F Collard… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Sea state information is needed for many applications, ranging from safety at sea and on the
coast, for which real time data are essential, to planning and design needs for infrastructure …

[PDF][PDF] ICOADS release 2.1 data and products

SJ Worley, SD Woodruff, RW Reynolds… - … of Climatology: A …, 2005 - wiki.esipfed.org
ABSTRACT The International Comprehensive Ocean–Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS),
release 2.1 (1784–2002), is the largest available set of in situ marine observations …

The contribution of wind-generated waves to coastal sea-level changes

G Dodet, A Melet, F Ardhuin, X Bertin, D Idier… - Surveys in …, 2019 - Springer
Surface gravity waves generated by winds are ubiquitous on our oceans and play a
primordial role in the dynamics of the ocean–land–atmosphere interfaces. In particular, wind …

A significant increase in wave height in the North Atlantic Ocean over the 20th century

X Bertin, E Prouteau, C Letetrel - Global and Planetary Change, 2013 - Elsevier
A new 109year numerical wind-wave hindcast is developed for the North Atlantic Ocean
based on the 20th century atmospheric reanalysis (20CR). Wave results are validated …