Wind and Wave Climate in the Arctic Ocean as Observed by Altimeters

Qingxiang Liu; Alexander V Babanin; Stefan Zieger; Ian R Young; Changlong Guan

Journal article

Wind and Wave Climate in the Arctic Ocean as Observed by Altimeters

Qingxiang Liu, Alexander V Babanin, Stefan Zieger, Ian R Young, Changlong Guan

Journal of Climate | AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0219.1

University of Melbourne Researchers

Alexander Babanin Author Infrastructure Engineering

Qingxiang Liu Author Infrastructure Engineering

Ian Young Author

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Grants

Awarded by China Scholarship Council (CSC)

Awarded by Australian Research Council

Awarded by U.S. Office of Naval Research

Awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China

Funding Acknowledgements

Q. Liu acknowledges the fellowship supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC; 201406330003). The authors are thankful for all comments and criticism raised by three independent reviewers. The ERA-Interim, NCEP-NCAR reanalyses, and EASE-Grid sea ice age data were kindly provided by the ECMWF, U.S. NOAA/ESRL PSD, and U.S. NSIDC, respectively. The AO index is sourced from the U.S. NCEI. We appreciate Dr. Walter Meier and Dr. Julienne Stroeve providing us the subregion masks of the Arctic Ocean. We also acknowledge Dr. Muyin Wang and Dr. James Overland for providing us their monthly AD index. AVB acknowledges support from the Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP130100227 and the U.S. Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-13-1-0278. C. Guan appreciates the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 41276010 and U1406401).