Welcome to the WAVEWATCH III Online Tutorial!

WAVEWATCH III (WWIII) is a community wave modeling framework that includes the latest scientific advancements in the field of wind-wave modeling and dynamics. The core of the framework consists of the WAVEWATCH III third-generation wave model (WAVE-height, WATer depth and Current Hindcasting), developed at NOAA/NCEP.

WWIII solves the random phase spectral action density balance equation for wavenumber-direction spectra. The implicit assumption of this equation is that properties of medium (water depth and current) as well as the wave field itself vary on time and space scales that are much larger than the variation scales of a single wave. The model includes options for shallow-water (surf zone) applications, as well as wetting and drying of grid points. The wave model is a sophisticated modeling system with numerous developments that have been added in recent years (wave – hurricane interaction physics, new wave growth and dissipation physics packages, wave – mud, wave – vegetation and wave – bottom interaction physics to name a few) that make this model attractive for this project. Propagation of a wave spectrum can be solved using regular (rectilinear or curvilinear) and unstructured (triangular) grids.

WWIII is also used to model atmosphere-ocean interactions with the OWA (Ocean-Wave-Atmosphere) modelling system. Due to a diferent capabilites of coupling with atmosphere models (i.e WRF) and ocean models (i.e CROCO, NEMO,etc), this model is widely used by the community climate modelling.

This tutorial were created with the WWIII v6.07 and is designed to take you through this amazing wave model, step by step. Simply follow the tutorial flow (read de table of contents)

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Contents:

• System requeriments
  • Fortran and C++ compilers
  • Installing netCDF
  • Installing MPICH
• Getting the code
  • WAVEWATCH
  • Gridgen
  • OASIS-MCT
• Initial commands
  • Ejecutando el setup
  • Obteniendo los regtests
  • Errores comunes
• Setting up the environment
• Contains and compilation
  • Principales programas
  • Compilación
• Test cases
• Prepare configuration
• Compilation
• Preprocessing
• Execute the model
• AW simulations in BOCHICA
  • Initial folders
  • Running executables
• OWA simulations in BOCHICA
  • Initial folders
  • Running executables

Disclaimer

This tutorial is not intended to supplant the official WW3 documentation

Comments/help

If you have questions regarding WAVEWATCH III, or problems with this Online Tutorial, please let us know them in WWIII Forum (Link) or in the email something@gmail.com