Global wave hindcast with Australian and Pacific Island Focus: From past to present

Wind-wave hindcast data have many applications including climatology assessments for renewable energy projects, maritime engineering design, event-based impact assessments, generating boundary conditions for further downscaling, amongst others. Here, we present a global wave hindcast with nested high-resolution grids for the Exclusive Economic Zones of Australia and south west Pacific Island Countries, that is extended in time monthly. The model employs strategic methods to incorporate the effects of subgrid sized features such as small islands and islets. Various bulk wave parameters are available hourly from January 1979 to present, along with the full wave spectra at a set of 3,683 predetermined points distributed globally.

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Wind-wave hindcast data has various applications in climatology, renewable energy projects, maritime engineering design, and impact assessments. This study presents a global wave hindcast with nested high-resolution grids for the Exclusive Economic Zones of Australia and south west Pacific Island Countries, extended in time monthly. The model incorporates subgrid sized features and provides bulk wave parameters and full wave spectra globally from January 1979 to present.