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Page 1© Crown copyright 2004 Forecasting sea state with a spectral wave model Rogue Waves 2004, Brest Martin Holt 22 October

Page 2© Crown copyright 2004 Wave Modelling at the Met Office Operational wave models predict the offshore wave energy spectrum Hourly 10m wind forcing from a weather prediction model Global wave model grid spacing ~ 60km. Five day forecast updated twice daily Nested wave models grid spacing ~12km 48 hour forecast updated four times daily

Page 3© Crown copyright 2004 Wave height forecasts for GMDSS, for shipping forecast Hurricane Irene 21 Oct 1999 Contours of Hs over global wave model grid

Page 4© Crown copyright 2004 Pros and cons + Integrated parameters Hs Tz Tp Multimodal spectra; remote (and local) swell Wind forcing history “running fetch” situations automatically handled - Linear theory, Gaussian statistics (not describing individual waves) Rather coarse resolution in frequency and direction Resolution of modelled winds, turbulence not accounted for Resolution of coastlines Integrated parameters used: Hs Tz Tp

Page 5© Crown copyright 2004 Forecasting sea state Can we do more than just Hs, Tz, Tp and swell? (the 1998 wave model forecasts for “Schiehallion” were pretty good for Hs, Tz / Tp) Combinations of integrated spectral parameters, of forcing winds history ? (Olagnon & Magnusson) Choose parameters related to integrated spectral properties ?? Not the same as estimating a spectrum or spectral parameters from a timeseries ??

Page 6© Crown copyright 2004 MAXWAVE project outcomes (EC FP ) Diagnosis of likelihood of an extreme or damaging wave from a given sea state Case studies of ship casualties Spectral diagnostics - Jonswap “gamma” Shows where waves are actively growing -BFI -Goda -wave power -mean wave steepness Jonswap Gamma (colour) / windsea Hs (contours)

Page 7© Crown copyright 2004 MAXWAVE Stenfjell: Windsea Height squared times windsea Tz (proportional to Wave Power) from Met Office wave model Plots of “wave power” for the Stenfjell storm at 06z,12z and 18z on 25th October Ship was damaged near to peak of storm 06z12z 18z

Page 8© Crown copyright 2004 Parametrisation of “gamma” parameter Model estimates this from the amount of windsea energy present, compared to the total PM energy for the local windspeed Growing windsea is fitted to a JONSWAP spectrum For this calculation a value of 1 means either a PM spectrum or that the local wind speed has reduced over time 12km Jonswap Gamma (colour) / windsea Hs (contours)

Page 9© Crown copyright 2004 Ex-Hurricane Irene October 1999 Jonswap Gamma (colour) / windsea Hs (contours) Identifies regions with high sea state AND actively growing waves

Page 10© Crown copyright 2004 Can we say why the Draupner wave occurred when and where it did ? 12z

Page 11© Crown copyright z Can we say why the Draupner wave occurred when and where it did ?

Page 12© Crown copyright z Can we say why the Draupner wave occurred when and where it did ?

Page 13© Crown copyright z Can we say why the Draupner wave occurred when and where it did ?

Page 14© Crown copyright z Can we say why the Draupner wave occurred when and where it did ?

Page 15© Crown copyright 2004 Not yet with this particular parameter combination ….without a lot more understanding (if you believe the modelled winds and waves !!) Can we say why the Draupner wave occurred when and where it did ?

Page 16© Crown copyright 2004 Other processes? So far this has been deep water only. Not investigated Janssens BFI index – need to learn how to use this. ?wave-current interactions influence the spectrum ?? Shallow water ??

Page 17© Crown copyright 2004 MERSEA project North Atlantic FOAM 1/9° pre-operational April 2002 Surface currents 0-100cm/sec North Atlantic wave model at resolution of MERSEA ocean model currents Demonstrate impact of MERSEA ocean model currents on the wave energy spectrum. For both high sea state and long-period swell High resolution global ocean currents later

Page 18© Crown copyright 2004 Conclusions Brief overview of wave forecast modelling. Examples of additional spectral or environmental parameters. Can identify regions of high sea-state that are still actively growing. But cannot yet say whether this increases or decreases likelihood of an extreme wave. Other processes: (swell / cross seas / Janssen’s BFI /open ocean wave currents) Forecast models can provide more than just Hs / Tz

Page 19© Crown copyright 2004 Thank you