A 60 year wave hindcast dataset in the Caribbean Sea

Andrés F Orejarena-Rondón; Alejandro Orfila; Juan C Restrepo; Isabel M Ramos; Ismael Hernandez-Carrasco

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2021.107153

A 60 year wave hindcast dataset in the Caribbean Sea

Data Brief. 2021 May 18:37:107153. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107153. eCollection 2021 Aug.

Authors

Andrés F Orejarena-Rondón¹, Alejandro Orfila², Juan C Restrepo¹, Isabel M Ramos¹, Ismael Hernandez-Carrasco^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Grupo de Investigación en Geociencias GEO4, Departamento de Física y Geociencias, Universidad del Norte, km 5, Vía Puerto Colombia 081007, Colombia.
² Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (CSIC-UIB), Miquel Marqués, 21, Esporles 07190, Spain.
³ Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB), Palma de Mallorca 07021, Spain.

Abstract

This article presents a 60 years wave hindcast from 1958 to 2017, covering the Colombian Caribbean basin. Each output consists on 6-hour field of significant wave height $H_{s}$ , mean wave period $T_{m - 01}$ , $T_{mm - 10}$ and mean direction $θ_{m}$ with a resolution of 11.8 km $\times$ 11.4 km. The simulation was performed using SWAN model forced with JRA-55 wind fields. Model data is validated against NOAA buoy 42058 located in the central Caribbean. The resolution and time spam of this database allows to perform either coastal engineering projects as well as to perform research in seasonal and interannual wave climate variability including large return periods to evaluate coastal vulnerability.

Keywords: Caribbean; Hindcast; SWAN; Waves.