WAM#
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Description#
The third generation spectral WAve Model (WAM) integrates the basic transport equation describing the evolution of a two-dimensional ocean wave spectrum without additional ad hoc assumptions regarding the spectral shape. The three source functions describing the wind input, nonlinear transfer, and white-capping dissipation are prescribed explicitly. An additional bottom dissipation source function and refraction terms are included in the finite-depth version of the model.
WAM is the wave model component in GCOAST (Geesthacht Coupled cOAstal model SysTem) and the wave model for the ESM platform. Being a wave modelling leader and owner of WAM, Hereon cooperates with many national and international institutions, agencies, and universities (e.g. DWD, BSH, DLR, GeoInfo, IOW, ICBM, TROPOS, etc.). WAM is the basis wave model used for service evolution and production in the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS). WAM is also well-established in the climate modelling community, e.g. COWCLIP and CORDEX-type experiments and projections. Since 1992 WAM is the tool for the operational numerical wave model system at the DWD and is also used at the BW GeoInfo. Hereon supported successful implementations of the wave model worldwide: for the East China Sea (with the First Ocean University), South Atlantic and Brazil coast (San Paolo University), Meteo Services in Mexico, Oman, Australia, etc.
WAM also runs at different institutions for climate research and short term hindcasts/forecasts (DMI, FMI, Meteo-Norway, Meteo-France, HCMR, and many others) with active cooperation and/or support by Hereon.
The wave model WAM with its earth-system coupling interfaces (OASIS and on-going DWD-MPIOM coupling) presents a state-of-the-art tool to address atmosphere-ocean interaction through an active wave interface and counts for closing momentum and energy balance between ocean and atmosphere.
Model(s)#
WAM v4.5 :GNU GPL v3.0
Programming language(s)#
FORTRAN90