ABPmer’s Metocean Service Extends to Baltic Sea
ABPmer, UK, has extended its SEASTATES service to include the Baltic Sea, providing meteorological data with high-resolution wave models which is validated against local observations. In the forecast, this means that the models are continuously ‘trained’, thus improving the accuracy of the ‘raw’ forecasts.
SEASTATES is used by a range of sectors; the service has been extended to include the Baltic Sea due to ABPMer’s offshore wind clients’ increasing activity in the area. The forecast updates four times a day and extends to five days ahead for wind and wave conditions. The hindcast database holds verified hourly wind and wave conditions back to 1979 which can be used for construction and operational planning as well as informing engineering design.
ABPmer’s metocean information is used to inform a variety of decisions, from designing offshore structures and breakwaters to planning safe operational weather windows and tactical strategies for elite yacht racing.
