Detection of Human Influence on Trends of North Atlantic Ocean Wave Heights and Atmospheric Storminess

After the 2005 disaster of hurricane Katrina and the tsunami tragedy that struck Asia in the end of 2004, the public awareness of the potential impacts of storm surges and ocean waves on the human society, environment and ecosystem has increased. One of the issues of concern is

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Main Authors: Xiaolan L. Wang, Val R. Swail, Xuebin Zhang, Francis W. Zwiers, Myles Allen
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.559.2008
http://www.waveworkshop.org/9thWaves/Papers/Wang.pdf
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Summary:After the 2005 disaster of hurricane Katrina and the tsunami tragedy that struck Asia in the end of 2004, the public awareness of the potential impacts of storm surges and ocean waves on the human society, environment and ecosystem has increased. One of the issues of concern is