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Table 3 Settings of the WW3 simulations

From: Variations in extreme wave events near a South Pacific Island under global warming: case study of Tropical Cyclone Tomas

Item

Setting

Grid type

Spherical

Propagation scheme

ULTIMATE QUICKEST propagation scheme with the Tolman averaging technique

Flux computation

Friction velocity according to Ea. 2.35

Linear input

Cavaleri and Malanotte-Rizzoli with filter

Input and dissipation

Tolman and Chalikov (1996) source term package

Nonlinear interaction

Discrete interaction approximation

Bottom friction

JONSWAP bottom friction formulation

Depth-induced breaking

Battjes–Janssen

Bottom scattering

None

Triad interaction

None