Brazilian offshore wave climate based on NWW3 reanalysis

This paper provides a description of the wave climate off the Brazilian coast based on an eleven-year time series (Jan/1997-Dec/2007) obtained from the NWW3 operational model hindcast reanalysis. Information about wave climate in Brazilian waters is very scarce and mainly based on occasional short-t...

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Main Authors: Cássia Pianca, Piero Luigi F. Mazzini, Eduardo Siegle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2010-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Oceanography
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-87592010000100006