Energy Offshore

Overview

Energy Offshore provides information about weather window statistics, i.e., suitable conditions for maritime operations in the North Sea - Baltic Sea domain.

Application output

The application output provides a long-term average view of expected weather windows to support offshore operations. Exceedance statistics of surface wind speed and sea ice cover are computed as follows:

• Wind speed exceedance statistics:

  • Number of days in a month with wind speed exceeding 10, 18, and 21 m/s wind speeds at the surface (10 m). Note that hourly output is used, so any day with an hourly average wind speed exceeding one of the above limits is considered as exceeding.

• Sea ice thickness exceedance statistics:

  • Number of days in a month exceeding 5 cm, 40 cm, 60 cm sea ice thickness.

• Sea ice concentration exceedance statistics:

  • Number of days in a month exceeding 15% sea ice concentration.

• Weather window statistics:

  • Frequency of 3-, 5-, and 7-day weather windows (i.e. consecutive days during which a given limit is not exceeded) for the above exceedance statistics.

Accessing the data

Note

Data for this application will become available on the DestinE Data Lake in a forthcoming update.

Scientific Evaluation

Note

Scientific evaluation for this application will be available in a forthcoming update.