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MetOcean Solutions has recently enjoyed supporting the New Zealand Olympics team with complex modeling of the tides and currents of Qingdao, China – the location for sailing events of the Beijing Olympic. With the Qingdao Olympic Test Event in August 2007, we wish the team all the best for the event and the rest of their training. MetOcean Solutions’ expertise in marine consulting within New Zealand is widely recognized, but it is less well known our capabilities can be deployed around the globe with recent projects spanning South East Asia, the Middle East and Australasia.

With the near doubling of installed wind energy generation capacity in New Zealand in the last year, MetOcean Solutions has re-launched it operating and consulting services to support operators optimize operational and capital activities. Read the attached for how MSL can assist you or select Renewable Energy.

weathermap.co.nz is different, relating the weather to business' and individual's real activities and delivering the analysis you need to make decisions intra-day - whether predicting electricity demand or planning your weekend.

weathermap.co.nz uses MetOcean's forecast and analysis expertise for innovative land based forecasting and is currently developing tailored solutions for commercial clients.

Ports & Harbours magazine has featured MSL's leading edge, web-based operational forecast tools for ports to manage surge from long waves.

With advances in science and computer processing technology, ports now have access to a web based tool to predict the affect of long waves along ship tracks and the surge activity at individual port berths. Short term forecasts out to 7 days support port operational planning from vessel movements to dredge scheduling. Longer term modelling can assist in understanding the complex affect of long waves for port engineering.

For the full article refer to Ports & Harbours, The Journal of the International Association of Ports & Harbours, January 2007. http://www.iaphworldports.org/pdf/PH0107_contents.pdf

MSL are making the Emergency Response Interface (ERI) and hazard forecasts freely available to NZ Regional Councils and Maritime New Zealand to aid and assist in emergency response situations(including contaiminant spills and lost persons) and management of extreme coastal weather events.

Read more about ERI at www.stuff.co.nz

Downloadable PDF providing information for Regional Councils

MSL are developing statistical and neural network relationships between meteorological forecasts and key business indicators in order to provide a competitive edge to participating businesses.

The forecast models can be rapidly deployed anywhere in world, and provide meteorological data at National, regional and local scale up to 7 days into the future

Read more at The NZ Herald

MSL are currently offering open access to 7-day high resolution metocean forecasts for:

Access the metocean forecasts through the forecast portal