ABSTRACT
The availability of reliable wind-wave forecasts is gaining more and more importance for a wide list of engineering and civil protection applications, both coastal and offshore. With the recent progresses in numerical models, in global forecast datasets and in computational resources, it is now relatively straightforward to obtain sufficiently accurate wind and wave forecasts over open oceans, due to their wide extent and the absence of complications arising from complex coastal shapes or orography. Such consideration, however, cannot be applied to the Mediterranean basin and least of all to the Adriatic Sea, due to their limited extent and the significant importance of the
Observation and Data Network). Both the hindcast dataset and the forecast products are part of the package MWM (Mediterranean Wave Model) available at HyMOLab and DHI.
