A Critical Analysis of the Wind Climatology of the Adriatic Sea from Different Sources |
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| Authors: | L Cavaleri L Bertotti H Schmidt |
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| Institution: | Istituto Studio Dinamica Grandi Masse, Venice, Italy, IT
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Gesch?ftsfeld Seeschiffahrt, Hamburg, Germany, DE
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| Abstract: | Summary We consider the wind climatology of the Adriatic Sea derived from three different sources: an operational meteorological
model, a simplified wind model, and traditional ship reports. The simplified wind model is found to provide reliable results
in storm conditions, but it partly smoothes the fields when the meteorological pattern is not well defined and fairly uniform
at the basin scale.
The ship reports show a strong evident bias towards low values. This is partly interpreted as a tendency for ships to avoid
rough weather and not to report in these types of conditions. A second reason is a bias present in the transfer from the Beaufort
to the metric scale.
The best results are provided by the operational meteorological model, after its results have been corrected for a bias in
wind speed, associated with the resolution of the model with respect to the dimensions of the basin under study.
Received October 23, 1997 Revised August 10, 1998 |
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