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Abstract

Long-term changes of wind-generated ocean waves have important consequences for marine engineering, coastal management, ship routing, and marine spatial planning. It is well-known that the multi-annual variability of wave parameters in the North Atlantic is tightly linked to natural fluctuations of the atmospheric circulation, such as the North Atlantic Oscillation. However, anthropogenic climate change is also expected to influence sea states over the long-term through the modification of atmospheric and ocean circulation and melting of sea ice. Due to the relatively short duration of historical sea state observations and the significant multi-decadal variability in the sea state signal, disentangling the anthropogenic signal from the natural variability is a challenging task. In this article, the literature on inter-annual to multi-decadal variability of sea states in the North Atlantic is reviewed using data from both observations and model reanalysis.

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Title
Sea State Decadal Variability in the North Atlantic: A Review
Author
Hochet, Antoine 1 ; Dodet, Guillaume 1 ; Ardhuin, Fabrice 1 ; Hemer, Mark 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Young, Ian 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, IFREMER, 29200 Brest, France; [email protected] (G.D.); [email protected] (F.A.) 
 Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia; [email protected] 
 Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; [email protected] 
First page
173
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
22251154
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2612753482
Copyright
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.