February 28th 2005

ITS-FARGIS 2005

General Manager

New approaches in marine weather presentation and dissemination

Bjørn Åge Hjøllo (b.hjollo@c-map.no)

C-MAP Marine Forecast

February 28th 2005

ITS-FARGIS 2005

C-MAP Marine Forecast AS• C-MAP Marine Forecast was established in Norway,

Bergen September 20th 2004 by C-MAP Norway AS

• C-MAP Marine Forecast’s main objectives are to:– Make available relevant meteorological and oceanographic

information to international shipping

– Develop specialized and intelligent information services for maritime decision makers based on above information and leading communication solutions

– Contribute in building a safe, efficient and sustainable international shipping

February 28th 2005

ITS-FARGIS 2005

This talk:

• Quality of input data• Standardization• Distribution• Presentation• Functionality• Intelligent ship• Future improvements• Première of C-MAP WeatherView™

February 28th 2005

ITS-FARGIS 2005

• Quality of input data• Standardization• Distribution• Presentation• Functionality• Intelligent ship• Future improvements

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ITS-FARGIS 2005• Quality of input

– Global input data – ECMWF – Regional/local data from well known, regional

suppliers (in Europe e.g. met.no or Storm)

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Standardization

– WMO has recommended GRIB (GRIded Binary) to be the international distribution format

– Encryption of input data to ensure consistent format and minimum of end user hazel

– Adapt relevant standards, e.g. recommendation from MARNIS in WP 2.5

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Distribution and communication

– Minimize cost by user defined communication – http or email. Email allows splitting of data files in appropriate size maximizing download efficency

– User specification of geographical area, numbers of parameters, time step, time span and grid resolution

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• Quality of input data• Standardization• Distribution• Presentation• Functionality• Intelligent ship• Future improvements

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User tailored 2D Weather Presentation– Several units supported

• e.g for wind: knots, m/s, miles/hour and Beaufort– Customized presentation

• Grid values• Grid symbols• Contours• Filled contours

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Functionality

– Time series with cursor values– “Weather along route”

• Overlaying route on chart• Route as time series (x-axis = time & distance)

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Intelligent ship

• Innovative alarm functionality with customized combination of alarm criteria, with bolean operators ‘AND’ & ‘OR’, shown in:

– 2D Weather Chart– Weather along route presentation– Times series ‘along route’

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Future improvements

– Contingency models (partly from AIS-2010)– Observations

• Ice coverage (from ICEMON (ESA))• Ice berg• SYNOPs• Earth Observations (satellite observations of wind, waves, sea

surface) – to be considered in CAMMEO (ESA)• Ship routing & estimation of ETA – to be considered in MARNIS (EU)

– Risk along route – including traffic information, fairway resolving weather data, depth from electronic chart – to be considered in AIS-2010 (NFR).

February 28th 2005

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Première:

C-MAP WeatherView™