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Dataset Title:	Average Zero-upcrossing Period for the Swell Timeseries - North Sea - WAM ECMWF
Institution:	Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Directorate Natural Environment, Marine Forecasting Centre (Dataset ID: Tmsw_TS)
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Variable	Minimum	Maximum
station_id	"TSS1"	"wzbuoy"
longitude (degrees_east)	1.5	3.416667

latitude (degrees_north)	51.0	53.2183

time (UTC)	2017-09-12T01:00:00Z	2024-11-28T11:00:00Z

Tmsw (sec)	-999.0	13.4

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The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
 s {
  station_id {
    String cf_role "timeseries_id";
    String ioos_category "Identifier";
    String List_of_stations "A122, a2, akkaert, bolvanheist, Brouwerhavengat, cadzand, Deurlo, europlatform, Fino1WR, IJgeul5, k13, Nymindegab, ostend, Scheur oost, Scheur west, Schouwenbank, TSS1, TSS2, TSS3, TSS4, TSS5, TSS6, WaddenEierlandseGat, westhinder, Wielingen, wzbuoy";
  }
  longitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
    Float32 actual_range 1.5, 3.416667;
    String axis "X";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Longitude";
    String standard_name "longitude";
    String units "degrees_east";
  }
  latitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
    Float32 actual_range 51.0, 53.2183;
    String axis "Y";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Latitude";
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String units "degrees_north";
  }
  time {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
    Float64 actual_range 1.505178e+9, 1.7327916e+9;
    String axis "T";
    String ioos_category "Time";
    String long_name "Time";
    String standard_name "time";
    String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
    String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
  }
  Tmsw {
    Float32 actual_range -999.0, 13.4;
    String definition "Tmsw=sqrt(m0/m2) for the swell components";
    String definition_of_the_Swell "The swell is defined as the components of the wave spectrum not under the influence of the local wind. See Bidlot, ECMWF Newsletter N 91, Summer 2001, p12. https://www.ecmwf.int/en/elibrary/14633-newsletter-no-91-summer-2001.";
    String ioos_category "Surface Waves";
    String long_name "Average Zero-upcrossing Period for the Swell";
    String reference "Guide to Wave Analysis and Forecasting, World Meteorological Organization, 1988, second ed., WMO-No. 702, p13. https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=3110";
    String units "sec";
  }
 }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String cdm_data_type "TimeSeries";
    String cdm_timeseries_variables "station_id";
    String comments "Visit the website of the MFC at http://www.marineforecasts.be";
    String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3";
    String creation_date "Dataset updated twice daily";
    String creator_name "MFC ODNature RBINS";
    String creator_type "institution";
    Float64 Easternmost_Easting 3.416667;
    String featureType "TimeSeries";
    Float64 geospatial_lat_max 53.2183;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_min 51.0;
    String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
    Float64 geospatial_lon_max 3.416667;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_min 1.5;
    String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
    String history 
"Operational Forecasts based on model WAM. For more information on WAM, please refer to : Komen, G. J., Cavaleri, L., Donelan, M., Hasselmann, K., Hassel-mann,  S.,  and  Janssen,  P.  A.  E.  M.:  Dynamics  and  modellingof ocean waves, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK,560 pp., 1994. - and - The WAMDI Group, 1988: The WAM Model. A Third Generation Ocean Wave Prediction Model. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 18, 1775-1810, https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1988)018<1775:TWMTGO>2.0.CO;2
2024-11-24T00:51:49Z (local files)
2024-11-24T00:51:49Z https://erddap.naturalsciences.be/erddap/tabledap/Tmsw_TS.html";
    String infoUrl "http://www.marineforecasts.be";
    String institution "Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Directorate Natural Environment, Marine Forecasting Centre";
    String keywords "belgian, centre, coastal, data, ecwmf, environment, forecasting, marine, period, sciences, sea, swell, timeseries, wam, wave, zone";
    String license 
"This dataset is licensed under a <b>Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</b>. <br/>
<a rel=\"license\" href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\"><img alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png\" /></a>

This means you are free to share and adapt the licensed material, but you must give RBINS/MFC appropriate credits, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. In addition, you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.";
    Float64 Northernmost_Northing 53.2183;
    String source "Wave spectrum forecast by WAM";
    String sourceUrl "(local files)";
    Float64 Southernmost_Northing 51.0;
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v55";
    String summary "Average Zero-upcrossing Period for the Swell Timeseries - North Sea -  The domain is a lon/lat grid that covers the range [48.5, 57.033] in latitude and the range [-4.05, 9.25] in longitude. The latitude increment is 0.066 degrees, the longitude increment is 0.1 degrees. The spectral analysis is provided every hour. The sea surface is forced by the 1-hourly meteo forecasts provided by the ECMWF";
    String time_coverage_end "2024-11-28T11:00:00Z";
    String time_coverage_start "2017-09-12T01:00:00Z";
    String title "Average Zero-upcrossing Period for the Swell Timeseries - North Sea - WAM ECMWF";
    Float64 Westernmost_Easting 1.5;
  }
}

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