The GROW Fine Arctic (GFA) Hindcast is Oceanweather's comprehensive metocean study of the Arctic Sea.  The wind and wave hindcasts were all made with basin-wide grids of spacing 0.25 degrees latitude (28 km) by 0.75 degrees longitude. All hindcast time series are available in either OWI's OSMOSIS format (for current licensees of OSMOSIS) or ASCII.  The standard continuous hindcast covers 21 years (1985-2005) of data.  Spectra is also archived and available at select locations.

• Grid PDF File (112 KB)
• Comma-Delimited Grid File (32K, zipped)

• GROW (Global)
• OSMOSIS (Display Software)

• Time series of wind and wave parameters in ASCII or OSMOSIS format
• Return period extremes for wind speed, wave height (significant, maximum and crest) and wave period
• Operability statistics expressed as monthly and annual frequency-of-occurence tables and persistence/duration statistics
• Directional wave spectra