A study of the feasibility of using sea and wind information from the ERS-1 satellite. Part 2: Use of Scatterometer and altimeter data in wave modelling and assimilation

Description of the KNMI Operational Wave Forecast Model GONO

The purpose of this report is to give a description of the GONO computercode, which is operational at KNMI for many years now. The program was developed by J.W. Sanders, and its deep water version is based on a Norwegian wave prediction model. built by C. Haug in the sixties. Shallow water effects are however important in the southern part of...