Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 45–59, 2017 www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/17/45/2017/ doi:10.5194/nhess-17-45-2017 © Author(s) 2017. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Coastal ocean forecasting with an unstructured grid model in the southern Adriatic and northern Ionian seas Ivan Federico1, Nadia Pinardi1,2,3, Giovanni Coppini1, Paolo Oddo2,a, Rita Lecci1, and Michele Mossa4 1Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici – Ocean Predictions and Applications, via Augusto Imperatore 16, 73100 Lecce, Italy 2Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via Donato Creti 12, 40100 Bologna, Italy 3Universitá degli Studi di Bologna, viale Berti-Pichat, 40126 Bologna, Italy 4Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, del Territorio, Edile e di Chimica, Politecnico di Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy anow at: NATO Science and Technology Organisation – Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, Viale San Bartolomeo 400, 19126 La Spezia, Italy Correspondence to: Ivan Federico (
[email protected]) Received: 13 May 2016 – Published in Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss.: 25 May 2016 Accepted: 6 December 2016 – Published: 11 January 2017 Abstract. SANIFS (Southern Adriatic Northern Ionian ternative datasets at different horizontal resolution (12.5 and coastal Forecasting System) is a coastal-ocean operational 6.5 km). system based on the unstructured grid finite-element three- The SANIFS forecasts at a lead time of 1 day were com- dimensional hydrodynamic SHYFEM model, providing pared with the MFS forecasts, highlighting that SANIFS is short-term forecasts. The operational chain is based on a able to retain the large-scale dynamics of MFS.