NYHOPS Coastal Wave Modeling system: Bathymetry (m below Mean

boundary forcing sources, and observation network stations. Figure 2. Schematic shows the NYHOPS-CWM framework: 48-hour forecasts are initialized daily with initial conditions (IC) taken from the previous day hindcast. Model forcing is provided by winds and waves forecasts created by mesoscale NOAA and NWS models, acquired through the World Wide Web (WWW), and cached locally on Stevens computers to avoid service interruptions. Model forecast output is presently made available daily on the NYHOPS Web site. A high-resolution (approximately 1 km) wave forecasting model has been developed for the coastal waters of New York and New Jersey through a two-year National Weather-Service (NWS)-funded COMET project and through the collaboration of researchers from the Stevens Institute of Technology (Stevens), in Hoboken, NJ, and NWS marine forecasters from the Mount Holly, NJ, forecast office. The wave model has been ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: Marine meteorology forecasts