WEATHER AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY SINCE PREHISTORIC TIMES AND RECENT INDICATIONS OF CONTINUING FLUCTUATIONS IN THE N.E. ATLANTIC

Weather and climate are in a constant state of variation. The time-scales over which these variations take place range from minutes to millennia and even longer. Human experience of these variations spans only a very short period of time. As a consequence, a change which is actually part of a long-period variation about the mean can easily be mistaken for a rend in the mean itself. In recent decades significant variations in the wave climate of the N.E. Atlantic Ocean have been identified. It is important to try to identify whether these changes are a variation about a steady mean or whether they are indicative of a shift in the mean itself. An examination of the varying climate of storm systems in the N.E. Atlantic helps to provide an understanding of why the wave climate appears to have changed.

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • Climate Change Offshore N.W. Europe, an Assessment of the Impact of Changing Meteorological and Oceanographic (Metocean) Conditions on Offshore Activities; 18 April 1996; London, UK. Pprs. Publ by Soc for Underwater Technology, London, UK [16 p, 6 ref, 13 fig]
  • Authors:
    • Lynagh, N
  • Publication Date: 1996

Language

  • English

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00727974
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Nov 4 1996 12:00AM