Monthly CDIP:MOP-alongshore modeled wave statistics for California, January 2000 - July 2022

Overview

Monthly wave averages for all 11,594 CDIPS-MOPS alongshore sites in California.

Jan 2000 to July 2022 inclusive

Sites are defined in the files "CDIP_Transects.csv" and "CDIP_Transects.geojson". The bounds of each site are listed in the file "CA_region_bounds.csv"

Data are described here: https://cdip.ucsd.edu/documents/index/product_docs/mops/mop_intro.html

Data are obtained from here: https://thredds.cdip.ucsd.edu/thredds/catalog.html

Methods

Data are computed from hourly inshore wave hindcasts and nowcasts. Data download script is the file "CDIP_MassDownloader.ipynb"

wave summary statistics have been computed using the file "Create_stats.ipynb". All monthly data are simple averages (i.e. mean values) of the hourly data

Data files

Data have been split into 25 regions, defined in "CA_regions.json"

Data are provided in geoJSON format, in the form of one file per region, and one file for all regions

Data fields

Hs: significant wave height [meters]

Tp: peak wave period [seconds]

Ta: average wave period [seconds]

Dp: peak wave direction [degrees]

Da: average wave direction [degrees]

Ea: wave energy density, averaged over wave frequencies

Es: wave energy density, summed over wave frequencies

QC: quality flag

waveTime: UTC time string

metaWaterDepth: water depth of modeled wave data (range is 10-15m)