The WAM model cycle 4
Creators
- 1. GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH (Germany)
- 2. European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading (United Kingdom)
- 3. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie, Hamburg (Germany)
- 4. Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Inst., De Bilt (Netherlands)
Description
The WAM-model is a third generation wave model which solves the wave transport equation explicitly without any presumptions on the shape of the wave spectrum. It represents the physics of the wave evolution in accordance with our knowledge today for the full set of degrees of freedom of a 2d wave spectrum. The model runs for any given regional or global grid with a prescribed topographic dataset. The grid resolution can be arbitrary in space and time. The propagation can be done on a latitudinal-longitudinal or on a carthesian grid. The model outputs the significant wave height, mean wave direction and frequency, the swell wave height and mean direction, wind stress fields corrected by including the wave induces stress and the drag coefficient at each grid point at chosen output times, and also the 2d wave spectrum at chosen grid points and output times. (orig.)
Availability note (English)
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 109 p.
- Report number
- DKRZ-TR--4(rev.ed.)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 26000788
- Subject category
- S58: GEOSCIENCES;
- Quality check status
- Yes
- Descriptors DEI
- CALCULATION METHODS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRA; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; W CODES; WAVE PROPAGATION;
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPUTER CODES;