WANE is a follow-on study to Oceanweather's original WAX (West Africa Extremes) JIP (Joint Industry Project) for the West Coast of Africa. WANE provides a comprehensive database of wind, wave and ocean currents and is sold on a per-point basis.

A 15-year continuous period and 80 individual storms were hindcast using Oceanweather's wave model on a .325 by .625 degree grid covering the entire South Atlantic. Wave spectra from the GROW global hindcast were used at the WANE boundaries. A nested HYCOM 3-D current model was used to produce a 15-year continuous simulation of the currents off West Africa.

• Grid PDF File (1.4MB)
• Comma-Delimited Grid File (128K zipped)

• GROW (Global)
• OSMOSIS (Display Software)

The WANE summary report contains a comprehensive description of the generation and validation of the WANE wind, wave and current hindcast. A climatological description of the meteorology (air temperature, precipitation, winds, squalls) and oceanography (tides, currents, temperature, salinity and waves) is also included. Extreme statistics are computed for wind speed, significant wave height, maximum wave height, crest height, wave period and near surface, mid-depth and neat bottom layer current speed. Standard operational statistics and tables are also produced. Timeseries from the storm and continuous wind, wave and current hindcasts are available in OSMOSIS or ASCII format.