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09 Nov 2023
Development and technical paper |
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Design and evaluation of an efficient high-precision ocean surface wave model with a multiscale grid system (MSG_Wav1.0)
Jiangyu Li
Frontier Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System (FDOMES) and Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China
Shaoqing Zhang
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Frontier Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System (FDOMES) and Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China
Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, 266237, China
Qingxiang Liu
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China
Xiaolin Yu
Frontier Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System (FDOMES) and Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China
Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, 266237, China
Zhiwei Zhang
Frontier Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System (FDOMES) and Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China
Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, 266237, China
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Short summary
Ocean surface waves play an important role in the air–sea interface but are rarely activated in high-resolution Earth system simulations due to their expensive computational costs. To alleviate this situation, this paper designs a new wave modeling framework with a multiscale grid system. Evaluations of a series of numerical experiments show that it has good feasibility and applicability in the WAVEWATCH III model, WW3, and can achieve the goals of efficient and high-precision wave simulation.
Ocean surface waves play an important role in the air–sea interface but are rarely activated in...
