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 …

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 …

33 years of globally calibrated wave height and wind speed data based on altimeter observations

A Ribal, IR Young - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
This dataset consists of 33 years (1985 to 2018), of global significant wave height and wind
speed obtained from 13 altimeters, namely: GEOSAT, ERS-1, TOPEX, ERS-2, GFO, JASON …

Wave modelling in coastal and inner seas

L Cavaleri, S Abdalla, A Benetazzo, L Bertotti… - Progress in …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the long term development of the research on wind waves and their modelling, in
particular of the inner and coastal seas, the present situation is framed with a short look at …

A dataset of global tropical cyclone wind and surface wave measurements from buoy and satellite platforms

A Tamizi, IR Young - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
There are now a range of potential data sources for wind and surface wave conditions within
tropical cyclones. These sources include: in situ buoy data and remote sensing data from …

[HTML][HTML] Global wind speed and wave height extremes derived from long-duration satellite records

A Takbash, IR Young, Ø Breivik - Journal of Climate, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
The application of extreme-value analysis to long-duration (30 year) global altimeter and
radiometer datasets is considered. In contrast to previous extreme-value analyses of satellite …

Calibration and cross validation of a global wind and wave database of altimeter, radiometer, and scatterometer measurements

IR Young, E Sanina… - Journal of Atmospheric and …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
A combined satellite dataset consisting of nine altimeter, 12 radiometer, and two
scatterometer missions of wind speed and wave height is calibrated in a consistent manner …

[HTML][HTML] Calibration and cross validation of global ocean wind speed based on scatterometer observations

A Ribal, IR Young - Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Accadia, C., S. Zecchetto, A. Lavagnini, and A. Speranza, 2007: Comparison of 10-m wind
forecasts from a regional area model and QuikSCAT scatterometer wind observations over …

[HTML][HTML] Wind and wave extremes from atmosphere and wave model ensembles

A Meucci, IR Young, Ø Breivik - Journal of Climate, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Wind and Wave Extremes from Atmosphere and Wave Model Ensembles in: Journal of Climate
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Global scatterometer observations of the structure of tropical cyclone wind fields

A Tamizi, IR Young, A Ribal… - Monthly Weather …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Global Scatterometer Observations of the Structure of Tropical Cyclone Wind Fields in: Monthly
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