MFC

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MFCs recent development regardingpresentation
of high resolution weather information in Thick
and Thin clients

• Bjørn Åge Hjøllo
• Head of Section
• Norwegian Meteorological Institute
• Marine Forecasting Centre (MFC)

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Norwegian Meteorological Institute met.no
met.no/MFC

• met.no by Royal decree
• met.no provides the public meteorological
  services for both civil and military purposes,
  for protection of their interests, for protection
  of life and property, for planning and for
  protection of the environment
• met.no MFC by vision
• Weather and sea state information for off shore
  and international shipping
• Basic idea is Safety at Sea safety for crew,
  ship and environment, all in the context of
  Ocean Weather
• No governmental funding

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Results depends on

• Using state-of-art technology to develop
  information systems for thick (on board) and
  thin clients
• Synergy with international projects
• DISMAR (EU -Oil drift for European areas 02-05)
• ICEMON (ESA -Ice monitoring 03-04 (?) )
• CAMMEO (ESA Using EO 04-05)
• MARNIS (EU-IP Enhanced safety at sea 04-08)
• and Norwegian partners

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Bringing skilled and specialized information to
marine end users
THICK
THIN

• Thick clients with additional information on top
  of navigational charts (ECS) Shipping /
  fisheries
• C-Star ship routing with weather overlay
  tropical cyclones
• High resolution weather overlay
• Thin clients Off shore / on shore
• Traditional web services
• Web Map Services MetOc
• Combination

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Thick Client
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Thick Client
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Thick Client
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MetOc Web Map Server - metoc.met.no(Funded by
FFI, in collaboration with CMR)

• Standardised thin client solution for
  geographical information
• Several maps servers available
• Several information layers are available
• Weather information (wind, pressure,
  preciptation, temperature, clouds, etc)
• Waves, swell, etc
• Current, tides, etc
• Other information layers
• Ice-edges
• AIS information

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Thin Client
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Planed development of metoc.met.no

• Observation
• Earth observation (EO)
• Traditional surface obs (synop)
• Radar current measurements (hf.met.no)
• Weather radar
• Contingency information
• Simulation of oil drift
• Simulation for search and rescue (SAR)
• Simulation of ship drift
• Possibility for generation of sub data set

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A liferaft in Skagerrak during six days
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hf.met.no

• Surface current maps and significant wave height
  are reported hourly to hf.met.no since 2003AUG18

VTS
Mongstad

• Observation are made available in real time

Sture
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Future possibilities

• Fleet management
• Infrastructure (company specific info)
• Enhanced sea charts (ENC from C-Map?)
• Integration and combination of different layers
  specified by end user
• WMS as entrance to archived info
• Enhanced weather info
• Weather along route
• New parameters alarms
• And so on. IF FUNDING IS AVAILABLE