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Marine-weather intelligence built to fit existing maritime products and workflows
AlongWave provides global marine weather intelligence through forecasts, archived forecasts, reconstructed historical conditions, visual layers, reports, analyses and expert support.
Our products combine proprietary marine weather intelligence for waves, wind and currents with source-traceable complementary oceanographic and atmospheric parameters when relevant.
Our offerings can be configured by geography, variables, forecast horizon, resolution, time-step, scope and delivery method, helping our customers strengthen the marine-weather layer without rebuilding the systems and workflows they already use.
Our products
Forecast intelligence
Forward-looking marine-weather intelligence with forecast horizons of up to 15 days.
Archived forecasts
A record of what the forecast showed at the time a decision was made.
Historical reconstructions
Observation-informed estimates of the conditions likely encountered during a past event.
Visual layers and products
Embed-ready marine-weather layers and graphics for existing systems.
Reports and analyses
Expert-led marine-weather outputs tailored to operational and commercial requirements.
Expert support
Oceanography, geoinformatics, validation, benchmarking and product support for teams that need more than a standard data feed.
Routing, planning and monitoring
Insurance, claims and evidence
Applications we support with our
marine weather intelligence
Performance interpretation
Risk and exposure
Chartering and commercial analysis
Offshore operations
Other marine-weather-sensitive products and workflows
Configurable specifications built around real workflows and operational needs
Each package can be configured by geographical coverage, variable set, forecast horizon or historical period, update frequency, time step, spatial resolution and delivery method.
Coverage
- Global forecast coverage
- Selected-ocean and regional delivery
- Route-, asset-, port- and area-based extraction
- Standard or custom geographical domains
- Case-based historical reconstruction
Forecast horizons and update frequency
- Forecast horizons up to 15 days
- One-hour or three-hour time steps
- One to four forecast cycles per day
- Product and service-level configuration
- Archived forecast access to agreed scope
Spatial resolution and grids
- Standard output at approximately 0.083° × 0.083°
- Standard and custom grids
- Global, regional and local subsets
- Custom data extraction
- Custom downscaling and spatial configurations
AlongWave core engine variables
Waves
- Significant wave height
- Significant wave direction
- Primary swell height
- Primary swell direction
- Secondary swell height
- Secondary swell direction
- Wave period
Wind
- Wind speed at 10 m
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Wind direction
at 10 m
Currents
- Surface-current speed
- Surface-current direction
- Current speed at selected depths
- Current direction at selected depths
Complementary oceanographic and atmospheric parameters
- • Sea-surface temperature
- • Sea temperature at selected depths
- • Atmospheric pressure
- • Air temperature
- • Precipitation
- • Salinity
- • Sea ice/Ice mask
- • Additional publicly available variables by request
Designed to work with the technology our customers already use
Data feeds
- • API
- • SFTP
- • NetCDF
- • GRIB
- • Zarr
- • JSON
- • CSV
Evidence delivery
- • Archived forecast extracts
- • Historical reconstructions
- • Technical reports
- • Benchmarking summaries
- • Source and methodology documentation
Visual delivery
- • Tile-based web layers
- • Maps
- • Route overlays
- • Asset overlays
- • Report graphics
- • Custom visualisations
Custom delivery
- • Custom grids
- • Custom formats
- • Custom products
- • Workflow-specific analyses
- • Customer-tailored visual layers