Germany Coastline Wave - DWD. Wind and Waves
| Provider: | Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD, Germany |
| Model scope: | Germany |
| Update frequency: | every 12 hours |
| Resolution: | [0.8nm, 1.5km] x [0.5nm, 1.0km] |
| Model duration: | 16 forecasts starting at 3 hrs, ending at 2 days |
| Parameters: | wind, wind wave, swell, swell/wave combined |
| GRIB model date: | Thu Nov 21 00:00:00 2024 UTC |
| Download date: | Thu Nov 21 04:32:41 2024 UTC |
| Download delay: | 4hr 32min |
Note: the Download delay is the amount of time required for the GRIB model to compute its forecast and then for the LuckGrib cluster to download the data and make it available. The LuckGrib delay is generally less than 10 minutes, the remainder of the delay is the model compute time.
Description
The DWD Coast Wave model is a high resolution model covering Germany’s coastline, generating wave information, including wind waves and swell.
Ocean wave forecasts based on DWD-Model ICON
The numerical wave model represents an integral part of the operational weather prediction system. Therefore, wave forecasts directly depend on the forcing by analyzed and forecast 10m-winds of the atmospheric model ICON.
Internally, the wave model describes the local sea state as a 2-dimensional distribution of wave energy with respect to wave period and the direction of propagation. In the present version, a wave spectrum represents 36 directions und 30 wave periods from 1.5 to 24 seconds.