SEAFINE (SEAMOS-South Fine Grid Hindcast) is an Oceanweather JIP (Joint Industry Project) for development of wind and wave hindcast on a fine grid of the southern part of the South China Seas.
In 1992, Oceanweather Inc produced the JIP known as SEAMOS (South East Asia Meteorological and Oceanographic Hindcast Study) designed to provide definitive data on meteorological and oceanographic extreme and operational conditions, to be used in aid of design of offshore structures and planning and offshore operations in the general area of the South China Sea (SCS) and the immediately contiguous basins. The complexity of the bathymetry and the relative sparseness of tropical cyclones in this part of the basin present some special problems that may be addressed in this new proposed update and extension of SEAMOS, which we have dubbed SEAFINE. This new project not only provides a new, updated, and greatly expanded (in terms of the historical period addresses) of the entire southern half of the SEAMOS domain but also very high resolution metocean hindcasts carried out with fine mesh nested grid(s) covering the offshore and coastal resource development areas of interest to the participants of SEAFINE.
SEAFINE is based on a uniform grid of 25-km at extremely high resolution embedded with very-high resolution fine grid nests
each with grid spacing of about 6-km. The hindcast will cover a continuous 50-year period (1956-2005). Total storm population included in the hindcast is predicted to be about 100 storms.
Time series of wave spectra at up to 300 grid points in total (25-km and Fine nest) will be archived, exclusive of the grid points at which spectra are archived as boundary conditions.
