Concept information
Preferred term
NORSWAM
Definition
- The NORSWAM Project was undertaken in order to supplement the limited amount of measured wave data that was available in the northern North Sea on which to base design and certification criteria for offshore structures. The project was based on the development of a numerical model to generate wave fields from existing meteorological data. The model was ... developed jointly by the Max-Planck Institute fuer Meteorologie (Hamburg), the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory (IOSDL) and the Department of Environment Hydraulics Research Station. The model was primarily run in hindcast mode so as to generate wave fields from the surface wind and pressure fields of past storm events. By selecting a representative sample of the worst storms over a number of years, the wave data generated by the model can be used to provide an estimate of the distribution of extreme waves over the same period. For this purpose a special data set of surface winds and pressure fields - the NORSWAM Input Data Set - was compiled by IOSDL and the UK Meteorological Office. Information provided by http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/GCMD_BODC_NORSWAM_InputData.html (en)
Broader concept
- M - O (en)
URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/305bf791-4e28-48e7-8836-77b12d7d375c
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