The Black Sea hindcast is Oceanweather's comprehensive metocean study of the Black Sea.  The hindcast includes 1-hourly wind and wave operational time series on a 5 km fine grid, spaced 0.05 x 0.05 degrees, for the continuous years 1979-2019. Spectra is also available at select locations.

• Grid PDF File (2 MB)
• Comma-Delimited Grid File (80K, zipped)
• KMZ File

• 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