CAWCR Wave Hindcast

Ocean wave hindcast, using the WaveWatch III v4.08 wave model forced with NCEP CFSR hourly winds and daily sea ice, 1979-2010.

The dataset contains spectral wave output at 3683 points, as well as gridded outputs on a global 0.4 degree (24 arcminute) grid, with nested Australian and western Pacific subgrids of 10 and 4 arcminutes resolution. For further information, see Durrant et al (in prep)**.

N.B. January 1979 is a "model spin-up" month and data from this month should not be used for research purposes.

Spectral wave parameters output:
time; station; longitude; latitude;
frequency; frequency1; frequency2 (centre, upper and lower bands);
direction;
Efth (sea surface wave directional variance spectral density);
depth;
u10m; udir (wind speed and direction 10m above surface);
curr; currdir (sea water speed and direction).

Gridded parameters output:
longitude; latitude; time;
MAPSTA (status map) ;
U10; V10 (Eastward and Northward wind);
CI (sea ice area fraction) ;
hs (significant wave height);
wl (mean wave length) ;
t02 (mean wave period Tm02); t (mean period Tm01); tm0m1(mean period Tm0-1);
CgE (wave energy flux);
fp (peak wave frequency);
dir (mean wave direction); spr (directional spread); dp (peak direction);
hs0; hs1; hs2; hs3 (significant wave height partitions);
tp0; tp1; tp2; tp3 (peak period partitions);
lp0; lp1; lp2; lp3 (mean wave length partitions);
th0; th1; th2; th3 (mean wave direction partitions);
si0; si1; si2; si3 (directional spread partitions);
ws0; ws1; ws2; ws3 (wind sea fraction partitions); wsf (wind sea fraction);
pnr (number of wave partitions);
dtd (dynamic time step);
uust; vust (eastward, northward friction velocities);
cha (Charnock coefficient);
faw (wind to wave energy flux);
utaw; vtaw (eastward, northward wave supported wind stress);
utwa; vtwa (eastward, northward wave to wind stress);
wcc (whitecap coverage);
Sxx; Syy; Sxy (radiation stress components);
utwo; vtwo (eastward, northward wave to ocean stress);
uuss; vuss (eastward, northward surface stokes drift).

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