We describe the numerical implementation of a phase-resolving, nonlinear spectral model for shoaling directional waves over a mild sloping beach with straight parallel isobaths. The model accounts for non-linear, quadratic (triad) wave interactions as well as shoaling and refraction. The model integrates the coupled, nonlinear hyperbolic evolution equations that describe the transformation of t...

Abstract Various uncertainties exist in a hindcast due to the inabilities of numerical models resolve all complicated atmosphere-sea interactions, and lack certain ground truth observations. Here, comprehensive analysis an atmospheric model performance mode (Hurricane Weather Research Forecasting model—HWRF) its 40 ensembles during severe events is conducted, evaluating accuracy uncertainty for...

Wind–wave characterization and modeling around a group of islands can have significant challenges due to strong diffraction, shoaling, reflection. In this work, the wind–wave climate Azores archipelago (North Atlantic Ocean) is characterized based on wave buoy measurements recorded between 2012 2021 at five different locations with water depth ranging from 80 110 m. Moreover, during four storms...

The present work uses for the first time scatterometer wind fields to force a wave model and compares accuracy of resulting conditions with ones obtained when using two different sources hindcast forcing same spectral in Atlantic Ocean. For this purpose, 5-year (2010–2014) is performed SWAN Madeira Azores archipelagos. as input bathymetry from GEBCO, boundary WAVEWATCH III provided by Ifremer w...

The potential wave power has been assessed based on long-term data along a marginal sea area offshore Phu Yen province in Central Vietnam. Based the publicly available WaveWatch-III reanalysis (NOAA), deep-water climate during period from 1989 to 2019 analysed and used as boundary condition for MIKE21 spectral model. hydrodynamic module of is also run coupled mode. model calibrated verified aga...

[1] Multiyear climate variations influence North Pacific storm intensity and resultant variations in wave energy levels. The timing of these decadal fluctuations and strong El Ni~no’s have had a strong influence on long-term trends. Here we investigate variations in the North Pacific wave power, PW, determined from WAVEWATCH III (WW3) wave model significant wave height, Hs, and peak period data...

Hourly and 12 km horizontal resolution wind fields simulated by the WRF model (Weather Research and Forecasting model) have been used to force the WAM model (WAve prediction Model), for a wave hindcast run in the southeastern Bay of Biscay. Three-hourly boundary conditions (defined by directional wave spectra) were provided by the WAVEWATCH III model, run by NOAA. The year 2009 was selected to ...

Abstract This work presents the performance analysis of a multi-model ensemble wave climate projections in Mediterranean Sea against hindcast data. The were developed with numerical model Wavewatch III forced by surface wind fields 17 EURO-CORDEX GCM-RCMs providing time series main parameters on 3-h and 10-km resolution. GCM-RCM simulations during baseline period (1979–2005) was assessed means ...