Technical Description of the real-time ESEOO Forecast System
The ESEOO Forecast system consist on a set of different applications, which objective is to produce a real-time short-term (72 hours) forecast of
currents and other oceanographic variables,temperature and salinity among others, as well as to obtain a better understanding of the ocean dynamic.
The forecast system is based on the use of numerical models driven by meteorological and oceanographical forcing.
In order to fulfil the objective of providing ocean forecast over the Spanish
waters, the ESEOO system is constituted by three different regional applications,named
ESEOAT, ESEOMED and ESEOCAN, respectively focussed on providing coverage over
the Northeastern Atlantic (more specifically its Iberian Peninsula closest area),
the western Mediterranean basin and the area surronding the Canary Islands.
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Geographical
limits of the ESEOAT, ESEOCAN and ESEOMED domains.
(Click on each map to obtain specific information about each
regional ESEOO aplication) |
Nowadays, it is operationally run an application over
the ESEOAT domain. Puertos
del Estado has worked on the development of this ESEOAT aplication based
on the shelf-sea circulation POLCOMS model. Currently, PE is operationally running
on daily basis the ESEOAT System.
Likewise, different activities are going on to develope aplications, analogous
to the ESEOAT one, to stablish operational real-time forecast systems in the
rest of the ESEOO domains.
