Communications Earth & Environment (Dec 2022)

Global ocean wave fields show consistent regional trends between 1980 and 2014 in a multi-product ensemble

  • L. Erikson,
  • J. Morim,
  • M. Hemer,
  • I. Young,
  • X. L. Wang,
  • L. Mentaschi,
  • N. Mori,
  • A. Semedo,
  • J. Stopa,
  • V. Grigorieva,
  • S. Gulev,
  • O. Aarnes,
  • J.-R. Bidlot,
  • Ø. Breivik,
  • L. Bricheno,
  • T. Shimura,
  • M. Menendez,
  • M. Markina,
  • V. Sharmar,
  • C. Trenham,
  • J. Wolf,
  • C. Appendini,
  • S. Caires,
  • N. Groll,
  • A. Webb

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00654-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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In about 30 to 40% of the global ocean, including most of the Southern Hemisphere, mean and extreme wave heights have increased in magnitude between 1980 and 2014, according to a multiproduct ensemble of historical global wave climate assessments.