MyOcean2 user workshop

EMSA Lisbon

June, 19-20 2014

• Necessary data for effective routing:

• Wind speed and direction

• Current speed and direction

• Tidal streams

• Oceanic currents

• Wind surface currents

• Waves height, period and direction

• Benefits of routing for navigation:

• Accurate and efficient trips

• Comfortable and safe routes

• Data we need for the future?

• Wind data for free from ECMWF

• Model Hirlam, Arpege, Arome for European areas

• Local current data from MyOcean

• Coastal tidal streams for seaside watersports

• Waves data with finer grid

• Today only 0.2° (12 NM) provided by US services

• More sea water data (water temp at different debth) for fishing

• Improvements needed

• More rigourous data production. We need a perfect regularity in

the data reception in order to push processed data to users right

on time.

• Actual active users of Weather4D:

• 25,000 users to download GRIB files every day

• A growing market

• Existing and expected users:

• Leisure boaters and sailors

• Seaside sports (stand-paddle, kite-surf, sea-

kayak, shore fishing, etc)

• Sea angling schools

• Professional fishing

… thanks for your attention.