IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THE WAVEWATCH III® MULTI-1 WEBSITE
The EMC WAVEWATCH III
® global wave model Multi-1 was
decommissioned in NCEP operations on March 22, 2021. It has been
replaced by a new configuration of the WAVEWATCH III global wave
model, called GFS-Wave, and coupled to the
Global Forecast System (GFSv16), as part of the
Unified Forecast System.
THIS WEBSITE IS NOT DISPLAYING MULTI-1 OR GFS-WAVE GRAPHICS
It is being maintained for archival and verification purposes only.
Here are the details (PDF) on how this will affect users of this site.
Output of the new GFS-Wave model is available on NOMADS and Production FTP
*under gfs.YYYYMMDD/CC/wave/gridded and gfs.YYYYMMDD/CC/wave/station
Graphics of the GFS-Wave model output will become available some time in April on the
Model Analysis and Guidance (MAG) site under GFS-Wave. Note that the current WW3 link on that page is to the
discontinued Multi-1 wave model and will not be updated.
NOTICE:
The Global Wave Ensemble System (GWES) was discontinued on 23
Sep 2020 and has been replaced by an improved GEFS-Waves,
consisting of a one-way nesting of the WAVEWATCH III system with
the recently upgraded GFS Ensemble Forecast System. The NOAA
press release on the upgrade is
here, and information on GEFS is available
here.
The GEFSv12 Service Change Notice (issued 8/20/2020, PDF) is
here, and you can find information on the evaluation of the GEFS-Waves portion
of the GEFS system in the
Model Evaluation Group (MEG) Summary page on the
GEFSv12 upgrade
here.
The model data is available four times a day (0, 6, 12, 18)Z from:
-
Production FTP (gefs.YYYYMMDD -->cycle-->waves)
-
NOMADS (Ocean Models-->GFS Ensemble Wave-->(grib filter or https file download).
Details on the products can be found
here (scroll down to GEFS - Wave - Global).
www.nws.noaa.gov 
