U.S. Navy Hindcast Spectral Ocean Wave Model Climatic Atlas: North Atlantic Ocean

• Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHY COMMAND DETACHMENT ASHEVILLE NC
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1983
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; *OCEAN WAVES; ORIENTATION(DIRECTION); SLOPE; HEIGHT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; CHARTS; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; GRAPHS; WIND VELOCITY; HINDCASTING; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA141810; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA141810

Existing wave climatologies are primarily based on visual ship observations. These climatologies may be unreliable, particularly in data-sparse regions. Shipborne wave recorders have provided reliable wave data for selected areas of the oceans, but a scarcity of these data remains. This pilot atlas introduces a new, numerically derived, historical data set in the form of a wind and wave climatology. It is intended to provide the design, scientific and operational communities a more accurate representation of the overall wave climate of the North Atlantic Ocean than is available from other sources. Availability: Superintendent of Documents, GPO, Washington, DC 20402.