Responses of summertime extreme wave heights to local climate variations in the East China Sea

We detected the responses of summertime extreme wave heights (H(top10), average of the highest 10% of significant wave heights in June, July and August) to local climate variations in the East China Sea by applying an empirical orthogonal function analysis to Htop10 derived from the WAVEWATCH- III w...

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Published in:Journal of Geophysical Research
Main Authors: Yong, Huang, Yin Baoshu, Perrie, William, Hou Yijun, Yong, H, Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Oceanol, Qingdao 266071, Peoples R China
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Tropical Western Pacific
Northeast Atlantic
Atmospheric Circulation
Interdecadal Variations
Monsoon
Variability
Reanalysis
Ocean
Temperature
Validation
Oceanography
Pacific
Online Access:http://ir.qdio.ac.cn/handle/337002/1774
https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JC004732
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Summary:We detected the responses of summertime extreme wave heights (H(top10), average of the highest 10% of significant wave heights in June, July and August) to local climate variations in the East China Sea by applying an empirical orthogonal function analysis to Htop10 derived from the WAVEWATCH- III wave model driven by 6 hourly sea surface wind fields from ERA-40 reanalysis over the period 1958-2002. Decreases in H(top10) in the northern East China Sea ( Yellow Sea) correspond to attenuation of the East Asian Summer Monsoon, while increases in the south are primarily due to enhancement of tropical cyclone activities in the western North Pacific. We detected the responses of summertime extreme wave heights (H-top10, average of the highest 10% of significant wave heights in June, July and August) to local climate variations in the East China Sea by applying an empirical orthogonal function analysis to Htop10 derived from the WAVEWATCH- III wave model driven by 6 hourly sea surface wind fields from ERA-40 reanalysis over the period 1958-2002. Decreases in H-top10 in the northern East China Sea ( Yellow Sea) correspond to attenuation of the East Asian Summer Monsoon, while increases in the south are primarily due to enhancement of tropical cyclone activities in the western North Pacific.

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