The aim of this page is to gather information which will help us to establish the data format and the file name convention for the data exchange in the context of the activities of the WMO Lead Centre for Wave Forecast Verification.
If you are participating in this project, please update your own page in the column "details from data provider" in the last table below.
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General requirements for the project participants participants
- The fields have to be provided on a regular latitude‐longitude grid at the resolution that is best matching the native resolution of the direct model output.
- The data shall be encoded in GRIB format (edition 2) using WMO compliant templates. ECMWF can assist in the conversion into GRIB edition 2.
- The data will be pulled via ftp from an agreed server location at the data producer's site.
- Participants are committed to guarantee a steady and reliable provision of their data and to communicate any relevant changes.
- The following set of parameters is required:
| Name | units |
|---|---|
Atmospheric forcing: |
10 metre U wind |
component | m/s |
10 metre V wind |
component | m/s |
| Wave Fields: | Significant |
height of combined wind waves and swell | m |
Peak wave period | s |
| Mean zero-crossing wave period |
| s |
Mean wave |
direction | degree true |
- Please refer to the page LC-WFV technical details for complete specification of the required input data and the the expected future production work flow.
Forecast-observation matching
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