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 …

Satellite remote sensing of surface winds, waves, and currents: where are we now?

D Hauser, S Abdalla, F Ardhuin, JR Bidlot… - Surveys in …, 2023 - Springer
This review paper reports on the state-of-the-art concerning observations of surface winds,
waves, and currents from space and their use for scientific research and subsequent …

An assessment of whether long-term global changes in waves and storm surges have impacted global coastlines

M Ghanavati, I Young, E Kirezci, R Ranasinghe… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
A common inference in research studies of observed and projected changes in global ocean
wave height and storm surge, is that such changes are potentially important for long-term …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing wave power due to global climate change and intensification of Antarctic Oscillation

J Liu, R Li, S Li, A Meucci, IR Young - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, our objective is to evaluate the long-term variability of global wave power and
its underlying mechanisms, utilizing the longest wave reanalysis available (ERA5, 1940 …

A comparison of multiple approaches to study the modulation of ocean waves due to climate variability

J Liu, A Meucci, IR Young - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Using multiple approaches, the modulation of climate variability on global ocean waves from
1981 to 2020 is investigated based on a wave hindcast model forced by ERA5 winds. These …

Trends in ocean waves climate within the Mediterranean Sea: a review

F De Leo, R Briganti, G Besio - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
The interest for the impact of climate change on ocean waves within the Mediterranean Sea
has motivated a number of studies aimed at identifying trends in sea states parameters from …

140 years of global ocean wind-wave climate derived from CMIP6 ACCESS-CM2 and EC-Earth3 GCMs: Global trends, regional changes, and future projections

A Meucci, IR Young, M Hemer, C Trenham… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
We present four 140-yr wind-wave climate simulations (1961–2100) forced with surface
wind speed and sea ice concentration from two CMIP6 GCMs under two different climate …

Linking the long-term variability in global wave energy to swell climate and redefining suitable coasts for energy exploitation

B Kamranzad, K Amarouche, A Akpinar - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The sustainability of wave energy linked to the intra-and inter-annual variability in wave
climate is crucial in wave resource assessment. In this study, we quantify the dependency of …

On global wave height climatology and trends from multiplatform altimeter measurements and wave hindcast

Q Liu, IR Young, S Zieger, A Ribal, SM Long, X Dong… - Ocean Modelling, 2023 - Elsevier
Reliable estimates of ocean surface waves and their long-term global trends are
fundamentally important for numerous ocean engineering and geophysical applications …

An 8-model ensemble of CMIP6-derived ocean surface wave climate

A Meucci, IR Young, C Trenham, M Hemer - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
We present a global wind wave climate model ensemble composed of eight spectral wave
model simulations forced by 3-hourly surface wind speed and daily sea ice concentration …