1. ITS-FARGIS 2005 General Manager February 28th 2005 New approaches in marine weather presentation and dissemination Bjørn Åge Hjøllo (b.hjollo@c-map.no) C-MAP Marine Forecast

2. ITS-FARGIS 2005 February 28th 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

3. ITS-FARGIS 2005 February 28th 2005 This talk: Quality of input data Standardization Distribution Presentation Functionality Intelligent ship Future improvements Première of C-MAP WeatherView™

4. ITS-FARGIS 2005 February 28th 2005 Quality of input data Standardization Distribution Presentation Functionality Intelligent ship Future improvements

5. ITS-FARGIS 2005 February 28th 2005 Quality of input –Global input data – ECMWF –Regional/local data from well known, regional suppliers (in Europe e.g. met.no or Storm)

6. ITS-FARGIS 2005 February 28th 2005 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

7. ITS-FARGIS 2005 February 28th 2005 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

8. ITS-FARGIS 2005 February 28th 2005 Quality of input data Standardization Distribution Presentation Functionality Intelligent ship Future improvements

9. ITS-FARGIS 2005 February 28th 2005 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

10. ITS-FARGIS 2005 February 28th 2005 Functionality –Time series with cursor values –“Weather along route” Overlaying route on chart Route as time series (x-axis = time & distance)

11. ITS-FARGIS 2005 February 28th 2005 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’

12. ITS-FARGIS 2005 February 28th 2005 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).

13. ITS-FARGIS 2005 February 28th 2005 Première: C-MAP WeatherView™