The Black Sea hindcast is Oceanweather’s comprehensive metocean study of the Black Sea.  The hindcast includes 3-hourly wind and wave operational time series on a 15-mile coarse grid, spaced 0.250 x 0.349, for continuous years 1995-2007.

 

• Grid PDF File (96 KB)
• Comma-Delimited Grid File (16K, zipped)

• GROW (Global)
• OSMOSIS (Display Software)

• Time series of wind and wave parameters in ASCII or OSMOSIS format
• Return period extremes for wind speed, wave height (significant, maximum and crest) and wave period
• Operability statistics expressed as monthly and annual frequency-of-occurence tables and persistence/duration statistics