A 60 year wave hindcast dataset in the Caribbean Sea

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Hindcast
• Waves
• Caribbean
• SWAN