Improving location specific wave forecasts made by INCOIS, by coupling the numerical method with a soft computing tool, namely Artificial Neural Network.

The error between the numerical model forecast and the observed value is predicted 24 hours ahead using ANN.

Incorporating the advantages of both the numerical method and ANN to get reasonably accurate results for 24 hours ahead wave forecasts at 4 stations along Indian coastline.

Use of Average Mutual Information to decide the number of previous time steps used as input for the ANN models developed at each station.

Real time implementation of the models developed for all the four stations.