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Articles | Volume 18, issue 23
Articles | Volume 18, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-9469-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-9469-2025
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 23
Model description paper
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03 Dec 2025
Model description paper |  | 03 Dec 2025

SnapWave: fast, implicit wave transformation from offshore to nearshore

Dano Roelvink, Maarten van Ormondt, Johan Reyns, and Marlies van der Lugt

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Existing wave models are often quite heavy for coastal applications. The SnapWave model simulates wave refraction (turning towards the coast), shoaling (steepening up) and dissipation (loss of energy by friction and wave breaking), and it uses an efficient computational mesh that you can refine where you need it. In the paper we show that the model can reproduce time series of waves anywhere in the world, using a depth map and wave data from a global model (ERA5) or a local wave buoy.
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