Principal Investigator
Dr Luigi Cavaleri
Istituto per lo Studio della Dinamica delle Grandi Masse
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
1364 San Polo
30125 Venezia
Italy
l.cavaleri@isdgm.ve.cnr.it
Project description
Continuation of applications of a high resolution third generation WAM
wave model to the Mediterranean Sea and to explore in detail the model
response to small variations in the input wind fields. With this aim,
the same storms will be run with different wind fields. This will allow
the sensitivity of the model output with respect to the input wind fields
to be estimated. Also, we expect to begin to explore the influence of
satellite wind data on the model performance.
This project is aimed at evaluating the performance of a regional shallow
water version of the WAM third generation model. Wind data from both the
ECMWF global model and high resolution LAM has been used to drive the
wave model. Increases in resolution have been shown to be important for
accurate simulation of the wave field in the Mediterranean during stormy
conditions. The work provides interesting feedback to ECMWF.
For more details, please refer to the latest progress
report.
Additional information
Project period 1988 - 2002
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