A COMPARISION AMONG DIFFERENT AVAILABLE MARINE FORECASTING SYSTEMS IN IRANIAN SEAS

The marine forecasting is of great importance for several reasons including planning marine operations, scheduling shipping movements, dredging, survey, berth maintenance or construction. There are several global marine forecast systems based on large scale regional data which do not consider the localized effects of seabed and land topography on local wave and wind climate. They are also several local marine forecast systems in Iranian waters. This paper aims to perform an inter-comparison among different marine forecasting systems in Iranian seas in order to evaluate the accuracy and difference between their figures and give a proper ground for further investigation and research in this crucial issue.