Validation Test Report for WAVEWATCH III

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Evaluation of Spectral Wave Models Physics as Applied to a 100‐Year Southern Hemisphere Extra‐Tropical Cyclone Sea State

“…To model the waves generated by the April 2021 ETC we use a three‐grid global wave model set up, originally proposed by Rogers and Linzell (2018) and already tested and implemented by Liu et al. (2021) for a WW3/ERA5 forced 40‐year hindcast and by Meucci et al.…”

“…To model the waves generated by the April 2021 ETC we use a three-grid global wave model set up, originally proposed by Rogers and Linzell (2018) and already tested and implemented by Liu et al (2021) for a WW3/ERA5 forced 40-year hindcast and by Meucci et al (2023) for 140-year continuous wind-wave climate future projections. The inputs to the WW3 three-grid model are the ERA5 hourly 10-m neutral wind components and the daily sea ice concentration at 0.25° horizontal resolution globally.…”

Operational Implementation Design for the Earth System Prediction Capability (ESPC): A First-Look

“…The multi-grid model which has been validated (Chawla et al, 2009;Rogers et al, 2012) allows for the two-way communication of energy across domain boundaries. Typically, as it was with older versions of WW3, a host model passes wave energy through the boundary to a nest domain and whatever happens within the nest domain does not affect the host grid.…”

“…WW3 is run operationally at FNMOC (Wittmann, 2002;Jensen, 2002) and is currently in transition to operations at NAVOCEANO (Rogers and Dykes, 2012;Dykes and Rogers 2013). This latter reference provides details on the operational implementation at NAVOCEANO.…”

Nearshore Wave Simulations and Wave Characteristics Analysis during Extreme Weather Events

“…Also, studies such as Fonseca, Gonçalves, and Guedes Soares (2017), Moeini and Etemad-Shahidi (2007), Padilla-Hernández et al (2007), Strauss, Mirferendesk, and Tomlinson (2007), , and Venugopal et al (2011) have demonstrated the performance of third-generation spectral wave models using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Despite the reliability and wide application of third-generation spectral wave models, the accuracy of the results highly depends on: (1) the quality of input data (e.g., wind forcing, bathymetry); (2) the applied mesh resolution; and (3) the physics employed (e.g., wave breaking) (Rogers et al, 2012).…”