Requirements defined for Significant wave height (5)
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Note: In reading the values, goal is marked blue,
breakthrough green, threshold orange
Application-dependent Technical Priority (ATP) Magenta and Relative priority of the attributes Red
Id | Variable | Layer | App Area | ATP | Uncertainty | Layer/s Quality | Coverage Quality | Stability / decade | Hor Res | Ver Res | Obs Cyc | Timeliness | Coverage | Conf Level | Val Date | Source | General Comment | Application Area Comment | Horizontal Coverage Comment | Observation Comment | Performance Comment |
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107 | Significant wave height | Sea surface | Climate-AOPC (deprecated) | 0.1 m 0.3 m 2 m |
25 km 50 km 250 km |
3 h 4 h 6 h |
3 h 6 h 12 h |
Global ocean | firm | 2007-07-19 | AOPC | ||||||||||
298 | Significant wave height | Sea surface | 2.1 Global Numerical Weather Prediction and Real-time Monitoring | 0.1 m 0.3 m 0.5 m |
15 km 50 km 250 km |
60 min 3 h 12 h |
6 min 30 min 6 h |
Global ocean | firm | 2009-02-10 | John Eyre | ||||||||||
374 | Significant wave height | Sea surface | 2.2 High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction | 0.1 m 0.3 m 0.5 m |
5 km 10 km 40 km |
30 min 3 h 6 h |
10 min 30 min 3 h |
Global ocean | firm | 2011-07-29 | T Montmerle | ||||||||||
843 | Significant wave height | Sea surface | 2.5 Atmospheric Climate Monitoring | 0.1 m | 0.05 m | 25 km | 3 h | Global | reasonable | 2019-10-15 | GCOS-200: The Global Observing System for Climate: Implementation Needs (Published 2016) | Requirements in the GCOS-200 IP, Annex A, are only specified at the goal level. | |||||||||
1041 | Significant wave height | Sea surface | 3.3 Oceanic Climate Monitoring and Services | 0.5 | 0.05 m | 0.01 m 0.1 m |
1 km 25 km 100 km 0.5 |
60 min 3 h 24 h 0.5 |
7 d 30 d 1 y 0.5 |
Global | reasonable | 2023-09-29 | GCOS-245: The 2022 ECVs Requirements (GCOS-245) | The uncertainty was originally expressed only as a goal with a 5%. I have established 5 cm as the goal assuming a wave height of 1 m. |