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Southern ocean wave buoy heading for Chile!
On Friday 28 July, New Zealand’s Southern Ocean Wave Buoy started drifting eastward with the ocean currents.
SurfZoneView part of KiwiNet awards
MetOcean Solutions is proud to be part of the KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards.
Geraldton Port - Improving long wave predictions with real-time wave buoy data
Long (or infragravity) waves are created when swell waves interact with the coast and result in water level oscillations with periods much longer than the original swell waves.
Monster Wave Measured By Southern Ocean Wave Buoy
Earlier today, MetOcean Solutions' wave buoy in the Southern Ocean recorded a whopping 19.4 m wave.
Kaikoura wave model data now available
Hindcast wave model data are now available for the Kaikoura region. The data includes two high-resolution nested domains around the Kaikoura Peninsula and Clarence.
The world's southernmost open ocean moored wave buoy deployed
In collaboration with MetOcean Solutions, the New Zealand Defence Force yesterday launched a moored wave buoy about 11 km south of Campbell Island. The site is the southernmost location that a wave buoy has ever been moored in the world.
Historical ocean weather data statistics freely available
MetOcean Solutions recently provided free access to all our hindcast data statistics from around the world.
MetOcean Solutions wins NZ Defence award
Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has announced MetOcean Solutions a winner of the annual Minister of Defence Industry Awards of Excellence for 2016. The company won the 'Provision of a product to Defence for less than $15 million' category for the SurfZoneView software.
Validation of tool for safer and more efficient offshore oil & gas vessel operations
A paper detailing research carried out at MetOcean Solutions has just been published in the Ocean Engineering journal.
Predicting estuarine coastal inundation
At the upcoming New Zealand Coastal Society Conference in Dunedin Dr Brett Beamsley will present recent work from a project with Tasman District Council.
MetOcean Solutions nominated for Minister of Defence Award
MetOcean Solutions' software SurfZoneView has been nominated for the 2016 Minister of Defence Awards of Excellence to Industry.
Long waves in Port Taranaki
When an enormous storm swell was forecast to hit the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand this winter, Remy Zyngfogel, one of our keen oceanographers, decided this was the perfect opportunity to make a unique set of measurements within Port Taranaki.