Monthly Means Operational Global Wave Forecast Data Sets

Wavel Monthly Means

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Monthly Means Wave

Description :

Global wave forecast data set
period supported - July 1992 to current date;
each parameter is stored as a field of grid point values, in latitude rows starting at the north and working southwards; within each row values run from west to east starting at the 0° meridian;
data are stored in FM 92 GRIB using sufficient bits to ensure that the values represented can be retrieved to an accuracy consistent with the analysis method used;

The changes to this data set are as follows:

July 1992

Data is represented on a 3.0° latitude/longitude grid

Data consists of daily 10 day forecasts from base time 1200 UTC

Forecast steps available are 24 hourly to HH+240

Fields available are Significant wave height, Mean wave direction, Mean wave period, Standard deviation wave height, Mean of 10m windspeed, Mean wind direction, Standard deviation 10m wind speed.

January 1995

Data is represented on a 1.5° latitude/longitude grid

Order forms :

If you wish to make an order from this data set please download the following two Acrobat (PDF) files :

1. Instructions and Standard Order forms (common for all data sets):

24 KB

2. Data Set Order form (to select data from this specific data set only) :

8 KB

13.11.2003