Xiaolan L. Wang

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the 1871-2010 trends in significant wave heights in the North Atlantic, as statistically reconstructed from the 20th century reanalysis (20CR) ensemble of mean sea level pressure (SLP) fields.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of the used algorithm on the changing signal, not the robustness of the climate change signal itself, was investigated for Northern Hemisphere extra-tropical cyclone activity, using one single transient AOGCM simulation as standard input for eleven state-of-theart identification methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the atmospheric storminess as inferred from geostrophic wind energy and ocean wave heights has increased in boreal winter over the past half century in the high-latitudes of the northern hemisphere (especially the northeast North Atlantic), and have decreased in more southerly northern latitudes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a coupled atmosphere-wave model by perturbing the sea surface temperatures (SSTs) with anomalies generated by the Working Group on Coupled Modeling (WGCM) phase 3 of the Coupled model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3) coupled models that use the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC AR4)/Special Report on Emissions Scenarios A1B (SRES A1b) scenario late in the twenty-first century.

TL;DR: The performance of a new historical reanalysis, the NOAA-CIRES-DOE Twentieth Century Reanalysis version 3 (20CRv3), is evaluated via comparisons with other reanalyses and independent observations as mentioned in this paper.