A multi-decadal wind-wave hindcast for the North Sea 1949–2014: coastDat2

Groll, Nikolaus; Weisse, Ralf

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-955-2017

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-955-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-955-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

Review article

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04 Dec 2017

Review article |

| 04 Dec 2017

A multi-decadal wind-wave hindcast for the North Sea 1949–2014: coastDat2

Nikolaus Groll and Ralf Weisse

Data sets

coastDat-2 North Sea wave hindcast for the period 1949-2014 performed with the wave model WAM N. Groll and R. Weisse https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/coastDat-2_WAM-North_Sea

Short summary

A wave hindcast for the North Sea covering the period 1949–2014 using the third-generation spectral wave model WAM was produced. The hindcast is part of the coastDat database representing a consistent and homogeneous met-ocean data set. It is shown that, despite not being perfect, data from the wave hindcast are generally suitable for wave climate analysis.