The aim of Find in 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.
We are currently inviting the institutes that are participating in the current Wave Forecast Verification Project that Jean Bidlot has maintained for JCOMM, but other Centres are welcome to join the project.
all necessary information for project participants.
Please be aware that some links or e-mail addresses are available only for authenticated users.
Model details
Providers are asked to add their model details to the page Model details by providers. (these pages have been retired now)- The summary of all model details can be seen in Models' description page.
General requirements
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- Domain and resolution
- 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.
- ParametersThe
- following set of parameters
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- was agreed:
Atmospheric forcing:
- was agreed:
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- 10 metre U wind
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- component [m/s]
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- 10 metre V wind
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- component [m/s]
- Wave Fields:
- Significant
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- height of combined wind waves and swell [m]
- Peak wave period
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- [s]
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- Mean zero-crossing wave period
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- [s]
- Mean wave direction [degree true]
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Mean wave direction
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Forecast-observation matching
The matching between forecast and observation will be based on a nearest grid point approach.
No match-up will be performed if any of the surrounding grid points are missing in order to minimise land contamination effects.
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Potential contributors to the Wave Forecast Verification Project.
Contributors are invited to update their own page in the column "details from data provider".
If there is a need to change the main page please send a request enrico.fucile@ecmwf.int as concurrent editing is sometimes giving unexpected results.
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European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
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henrique.alves@noaa.gov
Arun.Chawla@noaa.gov
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National Institute of Water
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- Data format
- The data shall be encoded in GRIB format (edition 2) using WMO compliant templates. ECMWF can assist in the conversion into GRIB edition 2.
- Encoding details
Refer to the page LC-WFV technical details for complete specification of the required input data.
- Data exchange
- Refer to the page LC-WFV technical details for expected test and future production work flow.
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Det Norske Meteorologiske Institutt, Norway
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Servicio de Hidrografía Naval, Servicio Meteorológico, Argentina
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New Zealand MetService
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