IbnuSofian

-The National Coordinating Agency for Surveys and Mapping (Bakosurtanal)

-Coastal and marine research center, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)
TMI/TRMM
TMI/TRMM
danQuickscat
danQuickscat

Altimeter
Altimeter (Jason-
(Jason-
1&2,
1&2, Envisat,
Envisat, GFO)
GFO)

-Wave
-Wave models
models
(WW
(WW IIIIII and
and
SWAN)
SWAN)
-Tidal
-Tidal Forcing
Forcing
Wave Model

Wavewatch III

Global to Regional Wave Model

Uniform Grid

User friendly

SWAN

Regional to Local Wave Model

Advanced model for shallow water

Uniform and unstructured grid

Not user friendly

Sample of wave model (1)
Sample of wave model (2)
 1. High spatial resolutions
using nesting method
2. Need computer resources
and calculation time

Model

1. Spatial resolution 1 deg

2. Only available from late
December 2005

Altimeter SWH
System requirement

Operating System (OS)

Linux OS

Unix OS  Mac OS X, Sun OS, etc

Fortran Compiler

Portland Group Fortran Compiler
 Trial version can be downloaded from www.pgroup.com

Intel Fortran Compiler
 Non-commercial license for Linux from www.intel.com
System requirement (2)

Matlab both for Unix and Windows

Mexnc Library from
http://mexcdf.sourceforge.net/downloads/R2008a.ht
ml for ver. 2008a or below

http://mexcdf.sourceforge.net/downloads/ for ver.
2008b or higher

Grads from http://www.iges.org/grads/ for post-
processing
Step by step WWIII preparation

WWIII code request

Uncompress and unzip the package

WWIII installation

Run the model
WWIII code

Request code from
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/wavewatch/lice
nse.shtml

Request username and password

Download all package
 Grid generator:
gridgen.bin.tar.gzgridgen.ref.tar.gzgridgen.exp.tar.gz
 WWII code: install_wwatch3.sh wwatch3.ftn.tar
wwatch3.aux.tar wwatch3.inp.tar wwatch3.tst.tar
WWIII installation (1)

Execute the installer install_wwatch3.sh

And compile the wavewatch code by exec.
/WWII/bin/w3_make
 WWIII installation (2)

ibnusofian$ sh install_wwatch3.sh
How to run WWIII?

Installation

Edit link and comp in /WWIII LOCATION/bin/link and comp

Compiling the WWIII w3_make

Generating the domain grid

Create the nested region (small domain)
 Define the boundary buffer zone with no redundant point
 Note: the boundary started from grid no. 2 until n-1, the outer most
boundaries are read as land

Create the global domain
 Define the boundaries of nested region using the long – lat format

Preparation

Wind input using GFS Final analysis or GFS forecasting 1º or 0.5º
rotating

[Air Temp – Skin Temp] input (optional)

Cold restartww3_strt

Model Exec. ww3_shel
How to run WWIII? (2)

Temporal forcing

Hindcast 3 days  stable model

Forecast 7 days
Grid generation
NxM grid matrix

The outer most grid is read as land and not used

Grid generation

Global to regional wave model using the nesting
method

Create the regional domain using
create_grid_regional.m

Define the boundary input from the regional domain
with the I, j format

Create the global domain using create_grid_global.m

Define the boundary output for regional model with

long lat format
 Grid generation (1)

Expand the gridgen file

gridgen.bin.tar.gzgridgen.ref.tar.gzgridgen.exp.tar.gz

Tar zxffile_name.tar.gz

Open matlab in example directory /YOUR_WWIII_DIR/examples

Grid generation (2)

Copy the original create_grid_global.m and

regional.m to another filename to keep the orig. file

Edit the matlabm file to generate the domain grid
Grid generation (3)
Grid generation (3)..Results
 $Boundry input
$South
Grid generation (4) 2 2 F
140 2 T

Ww3_grid.inp 187 2 F
207 2 T

Boundary Input 225 2 F
242 2 T
$North
2 122 F
32 122 T
81 122 F
120 122 T
130 122 F
242 122 T
$West
2 3 F
2 121 T
$East
242 3 F
242 18 T
242 27 F
242 35 T
242 41 F
242 121 T
Grid generation (5) Global..Results
 Grid generation (6)

Ww3_grid.inp

Boundary Output
$Boundry output
$North
90 15 0.25 0 31
109.75 15 0.25 0 40
12215 0.25 0 113
$South
90 -15 0.25 0 139
Starting point  136.25 -15 0.25 0 21
Total points
145.75 -15 0.25 0 18
$West
90 -14.75 0 0.25 119
$East
150 -14.75 0 0.25 16
150 -8.75 0 0.25 9
150 -5.25 0 0.25 81
increments
Wavewatch preprocessing (ww3_grid)
Wavewatch preprocessing

Run ww3_strt

Run ww3_prep
Ww3_prep

Wind input

Download the GFS final (1 deg) or GFS forecasting (1 deg)

Convert grib to netcdf using NCL (ncar common
language) nclconvert2nc <file.grb>

Using panoply for reading the netcdf of GFS file
Wind input
Wind input

Wind format
Copy and paste wind data array

YYYYMMDD HHMMSS
from panoply, and change [tab]

[360x181]  u wind data to [space] using hidemaru editor

[360x181] v wind data (windows), gedit(Centos/RHEL
5.0 or greater), and nedit

YYYYMMDD HHMMSS (centos/RHEL 4.x)

360x181]  u wind data
Note: gedit in RHEL 4.x is little bit

[360x181] v wind data
“buggy”

…
For mac OSX user can use Editra

..
(from http://editra.org/download)

.. rather than “stupid” Textedit.app
Sample of ww3_prep.inp

'WND' 'LL' T
0 359 360 -90 90 181
'NAME' 3 1 '(..T..)' '(..F..)'
20 'wind_2000.txt’
Ww3_shel
FF Water levels
FF Currents
TF Winds
F Ice concentrations
F Assimilation data : Mean parameters
F Assimilation data : 1-D spectra
F Assimilation data : 2-D spectra.
20000123 070000
20000131 010000
$ Type 1 : Fields of mean wave parameters
20000123 070000 10800 20000131 010000
T TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
$ Type 2 : Point output
20000123 070000 900 20000131 010000
0.0 0.0 'STOPSTRING'
$ Type 3 : Output along track.
20000123 070000 900 20000131 010000
T
$ Type 4 : Restart files (no additional data required).
20000123 070000 86400 20000131 010000
$ Type 5 : Boundary data (no additional data required).
20000123 070000 3600 20000131 010000
'STP‘
$ End of input file
Happy modeling