A summary of the existing activities identified by ESA and the User Group in the GlobWave statement of work.
The activities are as follows:
A summary of the existing activities identified by ESA and the User Group in the GlobWave statement of work.
The activities are as follows:
The Wave Forecasting Verification Scheme (WFVS) was established at ECMWF in 1995, and allows participating centres to upload model predictions via ftp to ECMWF.
The HR-DDS is an online, interactive archive and analysis tool for SST data.
AVISO is an archive of Altimetry data from multiple missions including TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat, which allows a wealth of applications including ocean circulation, sea surface height mapping, ocean variability and spans domain areas from geophysics and climate modelling to the atmospheric and biological sciences.
The Radar Altimeter Database System (RADS) is an initiative funded by the Dutch government to establish a harmonised, validated and cross-calibrated sea level database of satellite Altimeter data.
The Archimede project is an initiative promoted by APAT for the collation and standardisation of data on waves, sea levels, currents and meteorological measurements. The project is a result of the requirement for the availability of vast quantities of existing data on coastal marine climate from one location presented in a standardised format and, to alleviate the difficulties in obtaining specific datasets for climate studies or numerical model calibration.
The European Wave Energy Atlas is an initiative which uses model predictions and in situ measurements to characterise wave climate and wave energy statistics in European seas.
EUROWAVES is a prototype tool which can be used for the evaluation of wave conditions at any European coastal location.
ESPEN was a pilot project designed to provide wave measurements and forecasting information with specific applications to Hellenic navigation.
WorldWaves is a commercial product developed over many years by Fugro OCEANOR through a series of national, European research projects (including ESA funding) and in-house funding starting in the early 1990s with the aim to commercialise remotely sensed data.
The goal of ECOOP is to create an integrated system offering the ability to detect environmental and climate change and to improve forecasting of the behaviour of our European seas.