NEXT is Oceanweather’s North Sea and Norwegian Sea long-term metocean hindcast. It is an extension project to the original North Sea hindcast product NESS. All NEXT wave hindcasts were made with Oceanweather’s adaptation of a third-generation wave model, namely OWI3G.
Three-hourly time series of “fields” variables produced in OWI NRA hindcast as archived at 3,222 points on the so-called GKSS NESS grid system. Hourly time histories of water levels, total and residual currents at 6995 grid points as archived by Danish Hydraulics Institute from its rerun of its hydrodynamic model made during NEXT. The NEXT grid spacing is 150 km on the coarse grid and 30 km on the fine grid.
The spectra are archived at OWI for possible use in future finer mesh hindcast studies or for access by NUG.
