A 60 year wave hindcast dataset in the Caribbean Sea
Andrés F. Orejarena-Rondón,
Alejandro Orfila,
Juan C. Restrepo,
Isabel M. Ramos,
Ismael Hernandez-Carrasco
Affiliations
Andrés F. Orejarena-Rondón
Corresponding author.; Grupo de Investigación en Geociencias GEO4, Departamento de Física y Geociencias, Universidad del Norte, km 5, Vía Puerto Colombia 081007, Colombia
Alejandro Orfila
Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (CSIC-UIB), Miquel Marqués, 21, Esporles 07190, Spain
Juan C. Restrepo
Grupo de Investigación en Geociencias GEO4, Departamento de Física y Geociencias, Universidad del Norte, km 5, Vía Puerto Colombia 081007, Colombia
Isabel M. Ramos
Grupo de Investigación en Geociencias GEO4, Departamento de Física y Geociencias, Universidad del Norte, km 5, Vía Puerto Colombia 081007, Colombia
Ismael Hernandez-Carrasco
Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (CSIC-UIB), Miquel Marqués, 21, Esporles 07190, Spain; Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB), Palma de Mallorca 07021, Spain
This article presents a 60 years wave hindcast from 1958 to 2017, covering the Colombian Caribbean basin. Each output consists on 6-hour field of significant wave height Hs, mean wave period Tm−01, Tmm−10 and mean direction θm with a resolution of 11.8 km × 11.4 km. The simulation was performed using SWAN model forced with JRA-55 wind fields. Model data is validated against NOAA buoy 42058 located in the central Caribbean. The resolution and time spam of this database allows to perform either coastal engineering projects as well as to perform research in seasonal and interannual wave climate variability including large return periods to evaluate coastal vulnerability.
