Monthly CDIP:MOP-alongshore modeled wave statistics for California, January 2000 - July 2022

Overview

• Monthly wave averages for all 11,594 CDIPS-MOPS alongshore sites in California.
• Jan 2000 to July 2022 inclusive
• Sites are defined in the files "CDIP_Transects.csv" and "CDIP_Transects.geojson". The bounds of each site are listed in the file "CA_region_bounds.csv"
• Data are described here: https://cdip.ucsd.edu/documents/index/product_docs/mops/mop_intro.html
• Data are obtained from here: https://thredds.cdip.ucsd.edu/thredds/catalog.html

Methods

• Data are computed from hourly inshore wave hindcasts and nowcasts. Data download script is the file "CDIP_MassDownloader.ipynb"
• wave summary statistics have been computed using the file "Create_stats.ipynb". All monthly data are simple averages (i.e. mean values) of the hourly data

Data files

• Data have been split into 25 regions, defined in "CA_regions.json"
• Data are provided in geoJSON format, in the form of one file per region, and one file for all regions

Data fields

• Hs: significant wave height [meters]
• Tp: peak wave period [seconds]
• Ta: average wave period [seconds]
• Dp: peak wave direction [degrees]
• Da: average wave direction [degrees]
• Ea: wave energy density, averaged over wave frequencies
• Es: wave energy density, summed over wave frequencies
• QC: quality flag
• waveTime: UTC time string
• metaWaterDepth: water depth of modeled wave data (range is 10-15m)