The aim of this page is to gather information which will help us to establish the data format and the file name convention for the data exchange in the context of the activities of the WMO Lead Centre for Wave Forecast Verification (LC-WFV).

If you are participating in this project,  please update your own page in the column "details from data provider" in the last table below.

We are currently inviting the institutes that are participating in the current Wave Forecast Verification Project that Jean Bidlot has maintained for JCOMM, but other Centres are welcome to join the project. 

General requirements for the project participants

• The fields have to be provided on a  regular latitude‐longitude grid at the resolution that is best matching the native resolution of the direct  model output.
• The data shall be encoded in GRIB format  (edition 2) using WMO compliant  templates. ECMWF can assist in the conversion into GRIB edition 2.
• The data will be pulled via ftp from an agreed server location at the data producer's site.
• Participants are committed to guarantee a steady and reliable provision of their data and to communicate any relevant changes.
• The following set of parameters is required:

Forecast-observation matching

The matching between forecast and observation will be based on a nearest grid point approach.

No match-up will be performed if any of the surrounding grid points are missing in order to minimise land contamination effects.

Potential contributors to the Wave Forecast Verification Project.

Contributors are invited to update their own page in the column "details from data provider".

If there is a need to change the main page please send a request enrico.fucile@ecmwf.int as concurrent editing is sometimes giving unexpected results.