
Overview
The Met Office runs global wave forecast models to support marine safety and operational decision making. Met Office configurations are developed to be run using the community wave model WAVEWATCH IIITM. The global wave configuration is designed to generate accurate forecasts for open waters of the world’s oceans and larger seas. The Met Office wave models are forced using wind data from the Met Office Global Atmospheric Hi-Res Model. The global wave model is run to provide a five day outlook for wave characteristics defining height, period and direction of waves within a given sea-state. The model uses a refined grid system in order to better represent fetch in constrained sea areas and blocking effects of islands and headlands. Please note this is a public beta and therefore a non-operational service.
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- How to use
- To access these resources, reference the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Learn more
- Description
- Met Office Global Wave model on a 2-year rolling archive
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::met-office-global-wave-model-data
- AWS region
- eu-west-2
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://met-office-global-wave-model-data/
- Description
- Notifications for new global wave model data
- Resource type
- SNS topic
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:sns:eu-west-2:633885181284:met-office-global-wave-model-data-object_created
- AWS region
- eu-west-2
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servicedesk@metoffice.gov.uk . Service desk is only available Mon – Fri, 09:00 until 17:00 UTC (-1 hour during BST). As a non-operational service we aim to respond to any service support enquiries within 3-5 business days.
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Met Office Global Wave model on a 2-year rolling archive was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/met-office-global-wave .
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British Crown copyright 2024-2025, the Met Office, is licensed under CC BY-SA
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