ABPmer’s metocean information service, SEASTATES, is regularly used to provide design criteria, inform weather downtime risk, understand a site of interest or support construction tenders. Here we look at some statistics about ABPmer’s SEASTATES hindcast databases.

ABPmer’s metocean information service, SEASTATES, is regularly used to provide design criteria, inform weather downtime risk, understand a site of interest or support construction tenders.

Behind the service sit powerful models and databases of past waves, wind and tides (hindcasts).

Thanks to modern computing technology this data can be accessed in an instant. Here we look at some statistics about ABPmer’s SEASTATES hindcast databases.

3  databases. Our SEASTATES wind and wave hindcast provides validated wind and wave conditions in high detail over NW Europe and the Baltic Sea. The SEASTATES NW European Tide and Surge hindcast gives water levels and flows at 10 minute intervals. We also have access to a global hindcast giving wind and wave conditions for the entire globe.

4 minutes is all it takes to make a cup of tea and for the weather downtime calculator to provide an answer

5 years since ABPmer first launched the SEASTATES hindcast service

10.6 terabytes of information held on ABPmer’s servers, and securely backed-up offsite

32 parameters covering waves, winds and tides and surges

39 years of data. And counting. Our hindcast databases stretch back to the beginning of 1979

4,687 requests to our automated weather downtime service since its inception in 2015

4,700 computing hours created the SEASTATES wind and wave hindcast

78,000 mesh elements in our SEASTATES NW European Tide and Surge hindcast model

85,000 time steps in our SEASTATES NW European Tide and Surge hindcast

62 billion data points in all our hindcasts combined!

Prepared by Jamie Hernon, Metocean Specialist

Learn how ABPmer’s hindcast database can support your project or for a free trial of the automated weather downtime service at our SEASTATES microsite.