Journal
COASTAL ENGINEERING
Volume 55, Issue 11, Pages 861-871Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2008.02.027
Keywords
Wave model; Hindcast; Significant wave height; WAM; HIPOCAS
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- European Union [EVK2-CT-1999-00038]
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his paper describes a 44-year (from 1958 to 2001) wave hindcast conducted for the North Atlantic, using a fine grid in the North East Atlantic coastal areas of Europe. The wind fields were obtained by a local area model that was applied in the areas adjacent to the European coasts, which was forced by the results of the NCEP reanalysis. While the NCEP results have a spatial distribution of 2 degrees and a time step of 6 h the wind fields produced by the local area model have a spatial resolution of 0.5 degrees and a time step of 1 h, which is important for accurate descriptions of the conditions in coastal areas and in rapidly changing storms. A version of the WAM model that allowed two-way nesting was adopted and calculations were made with nested grids allowing a fine resolution in the coastal areas of Europe. This paper includes the description of the set-up of the wave model and the validation performed vs. in-situ measurements so as to allow assessments of the quality of the data produced in this study. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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