Welcome to the WAVEWATCH III^® Developer Portal!

This page is intended for code developers (eg, people who will actually change the code to add features or improve existing ones). If you are a user and would simply like to download our latest software version please check out our WAVEWATCH III User Guide.

If you need help with using the code you can seek advice from other users on the discussions page or refer to our FAQs page.

This wiki provides information for developers of the WAVEWATCH III^® modeling framework, including an overview of the package, latest development news (or news in development), a quick-start guide for developers, general rules of developer etiquette, and links to technical documents.

WAVEWATCH III^® is a community wave modeling framework that includes the latest scientific advancements in the field of wind-wave modeling and dynamics.

About WW3	Developer Guide	Quick Start
The Community Wave Modeling Framework WAVEWATCH III®	Guidelines for contributing development back to WW3	Brief steps to clone, build and run WW3

Tech Docs	Tools	FAQs page
References and technical documentation	Tools and software for pre/post-processing	FAQ and install tips for netcdf etc

Latest Public Release v6.07.1 19 April 2019

Previous Release Tags
v6.07

Trusted Institutional Forks of WW3 Repositories

• Authoritative repository: NOAA-EMC/WW3
  • Code Managers: Matthew Masarik and Jessica Meixner
• Trusted institutional repositories:
  • Ifremer (UMR-LOPS)
    • Code Manager: Mickael Accensi
  • ERDC/USACE
    • Code Manager: Tyler Hesser and Mary Bryant
  • UK MetOffice
    • Code Manager: Chris Bunney
  • E3SM
    • Code Manager: Steven Brus