Cornell-MIT/PlanetWaves: PlanetWaves - Wave Modeling on Other Planets

Four-dimensional spectral wave model adapted from the University of Miami wave model (UMWM) to produce surface waves for a given bathymetry and a given wind climate on different planets. The model has been validated using buoy data at the Great Lakes and previous wave tank experiments for different surface pressure, temperature, and salinity.

This includes the wave modeling on past Mars at Jezero crater, past and current conditions in Titan's south polar lake Ontario Lacus, a super-Earth with a liquid water ocean (LHS 1140-b), an exo-Venus with sulfuric acid oceans (Kepler 1649-b), and a molten rock ocean on super-Earth 55 Cancri-e. The results are shown in Schneck et al. 2026, "Modeling Wind-Driven Waves on Other Planets: Applications to Mars, Titan, and Exoplanets" JGR-Planets

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under grant 214106, the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Sciences and Technology (FINESST) SMD's Graduate Student Research Fellowship under grant 171064, the Office of Naval Research grant N000142412598, and the NASA Cassini Data Analysis Program under grants 80NSSC18K1057 and 80NSSC20K0484.