After spin up phase, the initial data for typhoon Linda simulation was wind field measured from 10 m above sea surface
provided by ECMWF. The 6- h wind fields were taken from the period 00UTC on October 31 to 18UTC on November 7, 1997
with 1.125 1.1213 degree longitude-latitude grid resolution, and were interpolated by using cubic spline and bilinear
interpolations to specify wind components at the model grid point. The sea surface elevation is prescribed from the AVISO
sea surface height data.