Abstract
Four global wind wave hindcasts based on ERA5, MERRA2, ERA-I and CFSR reanalyses and spectral wave model WAVEWATCH III for the period from 1980 to 2017 have been validated against satellite altimetry and NDBC buoys for 1 year. Hindcast based on newly released ECMWF reanalysis ERA5 demonstrated the best agreement with both satellite altimetery (with normalized bias being up to 5%, and RMSE up to 0.5 m) and buoy measurements, including values of upper percentiles. In general, all hindcasts show good correspondence with the observational data and thus can be used in further wind wave climate studies.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 012056 |
| Journal | IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |
| Volume | 606 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Nov 26 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2019 Conference on Climate Change: Causes, Risks, Consequences, Problems of Adaptation and Management, CLIMATE 2019 - Moscow, Russian Federation Duration: Nov 26 2019 → Nov 28 2019 |
Keywords
- ERA5
- global wave climate
- MERRA2
- validation
- WAVEWATCHIII