A project being carried out for the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) by MetOcean Solutions Ltd is allowing the Ministry to more accurately predict how oil spills and marine pests may move around our coastline. New Zealand has a highly-diverse marine environment that is influenced by rapidly evolving weather systems and a complex coastline. This makes predicting the movement of … Continue reading
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The new 33 year atmospheric hindcast offers new scope for those wishing to carry out air quality studies with Lagrangian Trajectory modelling, to forecast the outcome of an atmospheric release, or to diagnose the source of any detected contaminant. The hindcast also provides a way of obtaining suitable meteorological data, to drive a Steady State Gaussian model in data sparse … Continue reading
A 33-year atmospheric hindcast for New Zealand was completed in May 2012, and high resolution information is now available for research and consultancy projects. The data are at hourly increments and span the period from 1979 to 2011. It is envisaged that this historical information will provide an invaluable resource to engineers and scientists for environmental investigations and climate analysis. … Continue reading
After a 3 month trial, MetOcean Solutions has been awarded a contract to supply wind forecasts to a European wind farm. The forecast system relies on high resolution atmospheric modelling together with statistical post-processing from data being assimilated from measured wind. There had been significant modelling, process testing efforts to find the correct balance between physical and statistical modelling for … Continue reading
As the country’s sixth most visited website and number one national weather website, metservice.com reaches over 300,000 unique visitors a week and attracts a broad segment of users. SwellMap.com has been providing marine weather to boating and marine enthusiasts for the last seven years, since 2005. The team at MetOcean Solutions is delighted to be recognised by MetService and collaborate … Continue reading
MetOcean Solutions Ltd has been supplying regular spill trajectory forecasts for the Rena incident. Rena, a Liberia-flagged 235m vessel ran aground at Astrolabe Reef, off the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand shoreline at approximately 2.20 am on the 5th of October, 2011. Heavy fuel oil was seen to be leaking from the vessel on Wednesday morning. Following the initial release … Continue reading
We are very please to announce the addition of Greg Pearson and Frank Sonntag to our team of scientists. Greg has come from his previous role as head of Research and Development at New Zealand Metservice to head up a new atmospheric group within MSL. Greg has extensive experience with the configuration and implementation of state of the art numerical … Continue reading
We have recently developed new web based services for delivering weather forecast data in an easy and intuitive way. These services are designed to seamlessly integrate into existing web pages and GIS applications. WXTiles A free service called WXTiles offers forecast overlays for existing GoogleMaps or OpenLayers web pages. Anyone can sign-up and add weather forecasts to their own websites. … Continue reading
SwellMap has recently been re-released providing recreational marine forecasts for New Zealand and areas all over the world. SwellMap has been generating accurate marine forecasts for hundreds of spots all over New Zealand for 6 years now, helping marine enthusiasts such as surfers and fishermen to know when the conditions are good. Recently, MetOcean Solutions Ltd decided to develop SwellMap … Continue reading