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Model generated sea surface wave components in the Irish Sea for the Coastal Flooding by Extreme Events (CoFEE) project (1996 - 2007)

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General  
Data holding centreBritish Oceanographic Data Centre
CountryUnited Kingdom  United Kingdom
ProjectCoastal Flooding by Extreme Events(CoFEE)
Time period01 January 1996 to 01 January 2007
OngoingNo
Geographical area

North Channel, Liverpool Bay, Irish Sea and St Georges Channel, Bristol Channel, Celtic Sea

Observations 
Parameters

Wave direction; Wave height and period statistics

Instruments

Unknown

Description 
Summary

This dataset consists of significant wave height, peak wave period, second moment wave period and nautical wave direction. The dataset is a gridded dataset, with grid resolution of 1.85 km. It covers the entire Irish Sea area, with a precise range from -2.7 degrees longitude to -7 degrees longitude and from 51 degrees latitude to 56 degrees latitude. The data are hourly averages and cover the period from 01 January 1996 to 01 January 2007. The dataset was generated by the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Coastal Ocean Modelling System coupled with the Wave Modelling model (POLCOMS-WAM) as part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) CoFEE project which ran from April 2007 to September 2010. The wave parameters generated by POLCOMS-WAM were used as input conditions into a coastal processes and sediment transport model which looked at the response of the north Liverpool coastline to extreme flooding events. The dataset was generated by the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (since April 2010, part of the UK National Oceanography Centre). The dataset consists of 132 data files in Climate and Forecast (CF) compliant NetCDF format.

OriginatorsProudman Oceanographic Laboratory
References

Brown, Jennifer M.; Souza, Alejandro J.; Wolf, Judith. (2010) An 11-year validation of wave-surge modelling in the Irish Sea, using a nested POLCOMS-WAM modelling system. Ocean Modelling, 33. 118-128.,

Data web sitehttps://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/numerical_model_data/
Availability 
OrganisationBritish Oceanographic Data Centre
AvailabilityLicence
ContactPolly Hadžiabdić (Head of the BODC Requests Team)
Address

British Oceanographic Data Centre
Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L3 5DA
United Kingdom

Telephone+44 (0)782 512 0946
Emailenquiries@bodc.ac.uk
Administration 
Collating centreBritish Oceanographic Data Centre
Local identifier1048COFEE_POLWAM_WAVES
Global identifier5784
Last revised2021-04-21