WEATHERNAV & PIRACY. As available in OceanView 4.3 & SDK 4.3 and later. Bjørn Åge Hjøllo

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1 WEATHERNAV & PIRACY As available in OceanView 4.3 & SDK 4.3 and later Bjørn Åge Hjøllo Product Manager Weather Services December December

2 AGENDA Quality of input data Integration Towards A Total Navigational Concept Tailored tools & functionality Online access to Historical Observations and Forecasts Satellite measurements of wind Jeppesen Piracy Warnings Demo of new WeatherNav features in OceanView December

3 WEATHERNAV WeatherNav- A unique navigational concept for ECDIS systems & C-MAP OceanView Aim; To mix a leading weather and routing service with C-MAP navigational charts and services: Quality of input data Integration; merge chart and weather/metocean data into a user friendly GUI Tailored tools for safe and efficient navigation Feedback: WeatherNav supports safety and efficiency at sea by introducing easier and more precise navigational decisions 14 December

4 QUALITY OF INPUT DATA 14 December

5 NWP; BASIC PRINCIPLES 14 December

6 ACCURACY Limitation in accuracy related to Model grid box; 25 km is world leading. Early 2010 resolution is down to ~14km Standard resolution grid box: Local resolution: 14 December

7 HIGH VS. LOW RESOLUTION Two way communication ensures that details are available when you really need them... EC-25 km, high resolution EC-50 km, medium resolution EC-150 km, low resolution 14 December

8 VALIDATION World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Wave validation until 2009 Source: WMO-JCOMM Scatter index, lower is better. (Red line is ECMWF) 14 December

9 WMO WAVES VALIDATION Scatter index, lower is better. (Red line is ECMWF) BIAS index, should be zero. Source: WMO-JCOMM 14 December

10 WMO WIND VALIDATION Scatter index, lower is better. (Red line is ECMWF) BIAS index, should be zero. Source: WMO-JCOMM 14 December

11 VALIDATION Objective Validation shows: Global meteorological forecasts from ECMWF have a higher score in average compared to other global computer centers (e.g. NOAA, UK-Met, etc) Due to leading techniques for assimilation of observations, especially satellite observations, the advantage is highest over sea areas and in the tropics The advantages of using ECMWF meteorological forecasts will increase with forecast length, being most beneficial for marine users especially when crossing the high seas ECMWF was a pioneer in Ensemble Forecasting, now the leading provider of Probability Forecasting (EPS) ECMWF is leading the race of having highest resolution of their global forecasting models; now providing 0.25 degrees resolution globally, in 2010 down to 0.12 degrees. 14 December

12 WORLD WIDE CURRENT FORECAST Source: Mercator-Ocean (25km resolution). Click here to view updated dataset 14 December

13 WEATHER INPUT SUMMARY Parameters: Atmosphere: pressure, wind, precipitation, temperature + dew point, clouds Wave: height, direction and period of total sea (Hs) and swell Sea: surface current, water level, water temperature Horizontal resolution (between models grid points): Globally: 0.25 degrees (~25km). Early 2010 down to ~12 km Local models: no lower limit (current is tested with res = 300m) Forecast period and update frequency: Long term = 10 days forecast globally, all parameters. Twice daily. Short term = 2-3 days forecast for special areas. Every 6 hours. Additional data feed: Tropical cyclones, ice coverage, tidal information in all harbours, piracy information, etc WeatherNav will enable optional functionality; route planning, etc 14 December

14 INTEGRATION TOWARDS A TOTAL NAVIGATIONAL CONCEPT 14 December

15 FLEXIBLE COMMUNICATION Communication module: HTTP 4 x MAPI - using clients inbox POP/SMTP & outbox Folder - using predefined send & receive folders File - send request, a received file is just double-clicked! Scheduled download - with data received every day at a given time Using proprietary CM-93 format; about 50% of GRIB files (GRIB is today industry standard) 14 December

16 WEATHERNAV IN EASY MODE User friendly EasyMode + detailed Options Mode : 1. Download & browse by one click: using screen area as download area 2. Presentation: easy toggling of main parameters 3. Dedicated nautical functionality; WX- along routes, WXwindows, tropical cyclone, ice coverage, etc 14 December

17 AUTOMATIC ROUTE FINDER 14 December

18 ROUTE DETAIL CHECK 14 December

19 AUTOMATIC WEATHER CHECK 14 December

20 COMPARE DIFFERENT ROUTES! 14 December

21 BASIC FUNCTIONALITY Alarms - any combinations of warnings; Weather chart alarm areas Alarms along route Time series: Identifying Weather Windows at a spot or Weather along a route: Response calculation: Heave, Pitch, Roll 14 December

22 TROPICAL CYCLONE & WIND SPEED Tropical Cyclone and Wind speed: Blue = Breeze or less Yellow = Gale Red = Storm or above 14 December

23 WETHERNAV WeatherNav; simply gives you a safer route suggestion...using world best WX- data Competitors route suggestion (from brochure...) WeatherNav route suggestion 14 December

24 TAILORED TOOLS & FUNCTIONALITY 14 December

25 TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNINGS Tropical Cyclone MELOR kn/gust 330 kn (!) Source: WMO- World Met. Organization 14 December

26 ICE COVERAGE 14 December

27 HISTORICAL DATA & FORECASTS Online access to two months of Historical Forecasts and Observations 14 December

28 EXPORT OF WEATHER DATA 14 December

29 SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS OF WIND AND WAVE HEIGHT 14 December

30 SATELLITE WIND OBSERVATIONS Satellite Observations have coverage where the vessels are; in the open sea. Allow for validation of model forecast in near real time. 14 December

31 JEPPESEN PIRACY WARNING 14 December

32 JEPPESEN PIRACY WARNING 14 December

33 JEPPESEN PIRACY WARNING Piracy overlay giving type of incident and additional text and status information Source: Bergen Risk Solutions 14 December

34 JEPPESEN PIRACY WARNING FROM SOURCE TO END USER COLLECTION PROCESSING ANALYSIS DISTRIBUTION IMB PRC UKMTO (UK) BRS in-house BRS in-house MSC-HOA (EU) ONI (US) RECAAP (Asia) Media Own Network Jeppesen s C-Map Ocean View 14 December

35 WEATHERNAV 2010 RELEASE Main improvements in OceanView 4.3 / SDK 4.3 Historical observations and forecasts; online access to last two months Earth Observations; access to satellite measurement of wind and wave in open ocean areas Significant reduction in file size by using CM-93 format vs GRIB Stability of DataCenter is very much improved Possibility to combine all parameters from different info sources Global current (25 km horizontal resolution) Several new ECDIS route export formats Export of Weather data Jeppesen Piracy Warnings 14 December

36 TESTIMONIAL, HURTIGRUTEN Geir Johannessen Chief officer MV Nordnorge Hurtigruten ASA I have personally used the system (OceanView) for some while now, and I must say I am very satisfied with it. We are currently sailing from Chile/Argentina down to Antarctica so this tool has been used a lot!... The C-MAP system has proven itself to be very useful and correct when it comes to the forecasts. The Drake Passage crossing is approximately 500 Nautical Miles and takes us normally 36 hours. It is useful for us to be able to see what to expect when it comes to Wind and Sea, and to plan the voyage on the basis of this. Both low-pressure tracks, pressure, winds speed and wave height have been very correct. When it comes to usability, there has been no problem in getting to know the different functions. Most of it is self-explanatory and well presented. Our experience with the software is so far very good. 14 December

37 TESTIMONIAL, BB WORKER Captain Olav Knutsen BB Worker Offshore Tug.now we have tested this (software) in real life. In connection with working with the (Deep Water Oil) rig Transocean Leader at position N66 00 E7 77 (Norwegian Sea) for ENI we experienced that the information we downloaded ourselves (in the WeatherView) was more correct than the forecasts that was relayed to us from the rig, exceptionally correct both in time and for accuracy on wind and wave height It is also surprisingly easy to download via our Fleet 33 satellite connection (9,6 kb/s) 14 December

38 FEEDBACKS ON OCEANVIEW 4.0 BW Lion Have put in use Jeppesen weather system since departure Iran and verified all relevant data since then. System is found to be working really well as it very easy use and more so you can practically lay all your courses and in fact we made a complete passage plan / route and have been monitoring weather all along the track since departure, which is very realistic and accurate. All parametric data such as - wind/wave height/sea conditions/barometric pressures/swell direction etc are very very realistic. In nutshell: System user friendly and easy to update Weather predictions are nearly accurate Route planning is very useful after taking into account weather forecasts Tides tool very useful & easy to use. 14 December

39 FEEDBACKS ON OCEANVIEW 4.0 Amit Nandrajog Marine Department BW Fleet Management Pte Ltd So far, the feedback from fleet v/ls on Jeppesen weather service has been very positive and encouraging with the system reported to be very user-friendly, helpful and accurate. It will also provide some valuable inputs into the navigation passage planning process making it even more effective. Once the deck officers have gone through the user instructions let them have a "play" with it for passage planning as well. The additional tool with Tides adds more utility to the system. Going forward, we will look forward to your and the bridge team's feedback, both good and bad, on the operation of the system. As discussed, please feel free to contact me incase you require any clarification /assistance on the above. 14 December

40 WEATHER DAMAGE IS TOO FREQUENT! The benefit of a better weather forecast is obvious included as overlay in C-MAP electronic chart: WeatherNav! 14 December

41 DEMO OF OCEANVIEW 4.3 TM A C-MAP Software including: Global vectorized electronic charts & functionality A full weather module including WeatherNav Jeppesen Piracy Warnings. and a lot more of useful navigational information and services 14 December

42 OUR COMMITMENT: Jeppesen Marine Commercial Navigation will continue to develop the Total Navigational Concept to support safe and efficient navigation. 14 December

43 ONE-STOP-SHOP; A DYNAMIC SERVICE Basic Proff+/ENC Service Communication Server Functinality Value Added Services Value adding WeatherNav incl. W.R, Piracy ++ One Stop Shop Optimal and Safe Routing ++ SDK enabling new value adding New Services 14 December