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Regional wave forecast system use GFS wind forecast, which every day downloaded from the NOAA server (ftp://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/GFS/). Wind forecast have time step 3 hours and used only first 72 hours. Special scripts cut wind data from global forecast for Black Sea region and prepare input files for SWAN model. Computation takes 2 hours and as a results we have images of wave forecast for Tsemes bay (Fig.3) for 3 days with time step 3 hours. This product sends by e-mail to consumers which need it. Wave forecast system work operationally and full automated , system files are on the server "Cray" in Natural Risk Assessment Laboratory (Lomonosov MSU, Faculty of Geography).