“…The link between planetary winds, pressures systems, and WCTs, gives us a fuller understanding of the causal mechanisms between the climate patterns, global warming and wave climate, and provides a more accurate quantification of their impacts. Moreover, the findings regarding these WCTs are in agreement with previous studies on global wave variability (Echevarria et al, 2020;Hemer, Fan, et al, 2013;Reguero et al, 2019;Shimura et al, 2013;Stopa & Cheung, 2014) and swell wave generation (Alves, 2006;Li, 2016; Semedo et al, 2011). Indeed, some of the WCTs shown here exhibit the same spatial patterns as those obtained by other authors (Echevarria et al, 2019;Jiang, 2020).…”