Operational Maritime Weather Forecast for Port Access and Operations Using the Aquasafe Platform. Leitão, J., C., Galvão, P., Leitão, P., C., & Silva, A. In PIANC - COPEDEC 2016, pages 1-11, 2016. PIANC.
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Operational weather forecast systems, based on the AQUASAFE platform, have been set up for several ports in Europe and South America, to support the need to increase productivity and maintain safety. This platform can be used to downscale waves and currents’ forecasts to a resolution of the order of 10 to 100 m and disseminate modelled and measured data in real time. AQUASAFE is also being used to support the evaluation of the water depth in navigation channels. These data are displayed in real time in control rooms’ screens, in mobile Apps and automatic reports disseminated via email. One of the desktop clients that connects to the forecast server is the Oil Spill Simulator, used in emergency situations (to support oil spill or search and rescue operations). The first sections of the present paper are dedicated to describe the main features of operational weather forecast systems like downscaling, validation and reliability, based on the implementation and maintenance experience of the authors. The latter sections describe the AQUASAFE software and its various components.

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