Model data from the latest NOAA WAVEWATCH III® runs is available in
GRIB (GRIdded Binary) format on
the Marine Modeling and Analyses Branch FTP
server,
the NCEP
NOMADS
GDS/DODS data server,
and the
NCEP Central Operations Production FTP server,
at the following URLs:
- Current Data (WAVEWATCH III® multigrid latest version)
-
FTPPRD (NCO Production FTP Server,
today and three days prior.)
- MMAB FTP
(Marine Branch FTP server, last six runs)
-
NOMADS (in Ocean Models) (present + 1 week
archive)
- Current Data (WAVEWATCH III® ensemble)
-
MMAB FTP (Marine Branch FTP server,
today and three days prior)
- Archived Data (WAVEWATCH III® Production Hindcast)
-
MMAB FTP (Marine Branch FTP server,
1999 - 2018)
-
NODC THREDDS (NODC Archive,
2005 - 2018)
Notes and Information on Using WAVEWATCH III® Model Data
GRIB
The operational data file format is
GRiB (GRIdded Binary). Additional information on the use of GRiB at NCEP is
available
here.
To work with WAVEWATCH III® GRiB, any standard tools which read GRiB will work. One
such tool is the freely available wgrib2 utility.
The wgrib2 home page and software is here.
For analyzing the
model data in MATLAB® we recommend the
NCTOOLBOX for MATLAB. NCTOOLBOX can read NetCDF, OPeNDAP, HDF5, GRIB,
GRIB2, HDF4 and many (15+) other file formats. The complete list of formats
is
available here.
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