Metocean Forecasting
MetOcean Solutions offer a wave, wind and current forecasting service for any location on Earth, and we specialise in producing customised domains to offer high resolution prediction of the ocean and coastal conditions.
Our marine forecast solutions can be configured to whatever scale required – for example resolving the wave energy gradients behind an island, throughout an oil field or along a shipping channel and into a harbour entrance. The aim is to provide you with the forecast information you need in the actual location that you need it.
With the exception of global atmospherics, we run all our own wave and meteorological models in-house using state-of-the-art codes such as WaveWatch3, SWAN and WRF. We are continually optimising our model configurations to provide accurate forecasts at specific locations.
The main data products are:
- Wave heights of the sea and swell
- Wave directions of the sea and swell
- Peak (dominant) period of the waves
- Wind speed and direction
- Tidal elevations
- Currents induced by tide and wind
- Harbour long waves
We can also provide directional spectra, spectral widths, shape parameters and modal estimates, and wind at various elevations. Forecast data are produced on 6-12 hourly cycles and made available as graphs, maps or text at hourly intervals out to 7 days ahead. Winds are from GFS or nested WRF domains, waves from nested WW3 / SWAN, and current from nested POM domains.
All of the forecast products are distributed with a web-based interface with the following features:
- Easily accessible to clients from their desktops.
- Forecasts can be accessed on the water using any device with web browser.
- Easy to use, high resolution maps.
- Clear visual aids (colour coding for wave heights, and vectors for wind and swell direction) to clearly show events.
- General information is provided 3-hourly using the latest available information
with hourly updates available for site specific locations. - Site-specific forecasts can be implemented within 24 hours.
- Custom high-resolution wave model grids can normally be implemented within 48 hours.
Let us know your marine weather forecasting requirements, and we will provide you with technical details of a reliable solution.
Try one of our demos here.
For recreational use, you may like to visit one of our general weather sites: