
O presente trabalho apresenta uma comparação entre algumas rodadas do modelo numérico de geração e propagação de ondas Wavewatch III empregando campos de vento com diferentes resoluções espaciais e temporais em uma região tropical do oceano Atlântico Sul. Os campos de vento utilizados de entrada são os da Reanálise do NCEP (com resolução espacial de cerca de 2º e resolução temporal de 6 horas), do Global Forecast System (resolução espacial de 1º e resolução temporal de 6 horas), bem como os campos de maior resolução espacial e temporal de um modelo de mesoescala (Mesoscale Modeling System), com resolução espacial de 0,2º e resolução temporal de 1 e 6 horas. As estimativas de altura significativa, período de pico e direção principal de propagação do Wavewatch III, assim como as estimativas dos ventos usados como entrada, são comparadas com as medições de ondas de um radar e de um anemômetro, ambos instalados na Bacia de Campos, sudeste do Brasil. Os resultados mostram que campos de vento com maior resolução espacial têm um impacto positivo sobre a previsão das ondas. No entanto, mantendo a mesma resolução espacial e aumentando a resolução temporal, não se obtém melhores estimativas dos campos de onda.This work presents a comparison among several runs of the numerical wave model, Wavewatch III (WW3) employing different temporal and spatial resolutions for the wind fields in a tropical area of the Southern Atlantic Ocean. The input wind fields are from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis, with 2º spatial resolution and 6 hours temporal resolution, the Global Forecast System (GFS) analysis, with 1º spatial resolution and 6 hours temporal resolution, as well as the higher spatial and temporal resolution fields of a mesoscale model (Mesoscale Modeling System), with 0.2º spatial resolution and temporal resolution of 1 and 6 hours. The WW3 estimates of significant wave height, peak period and main propagation direction, as well as the wind estimates used as input, are inter-compared against a radar wave measurements and wind speed and direction recorded from an anemometer, both instruments operating on board at an oil platform in the Campos Basin, south-eastern Brazil. The results show that a higher spatial resolution for the wind input has a positive impact on the wave estimates. However, maintaining the same spatial resolution and increasing the temporal resolution does not translate into significantly better wave estimates.
Meteorology. Climatology, Wave Modeling, QC851-999, Wind Waves, Campos Basin
Meteorology. Climatology, Wave Modeling, QC851-999, Wind Waves, Campos Basin
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