A New Approach to Surface Currents Monitoring

Date/Time:

15 Mar 2012
16:35-17:00

Location:

South Galleries

Seminar Details
There is growing recognition in the offshore industry of the need to put in place adequate contingency plans in order to respond efficiently to oil leakage events and for the management of operations. To this end,CLS has developed a state of the art current prediction system massively based on satellite (such as altimetry, Sea surface temperature, ocean color) and in-situ observations (ADCP, surface drifters) This systems provide daily near real time maps of the surface currents at high resolution (4 km, hourly data) and has a 48h forecast ability. The currents can be used for day to day operations (direct use, through a web interface or a bulletin) or as inputs to existing oil drift models.Additionally,the system can also be used in a hindcast mode to provide accurate data for the analysis of past events and the development of contingency scenarios. Finally, the system can provide surface currents for design and development purposes