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WEATHER DOWNTIME
DEVELOPING SCIENCE TO MAKE WEATHER AND CLIMATE ADVICE RELEVANT TO DOWNTIME PLANNING Wind speed, wave height, swell and thunderstorms, fog and low cloud can all affect the success of each phase of an offshore wind operation, whether in planning, construction or operations. Marine meteorologists work around the clock, every single day, to provide an accurate and reliable range of weather and metocean information.
HADLEY CENTRE FOR CLIMATE SCIENCE AND SERVICES The Met Office’s Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services, has been recognised as the number- one geosciences research centre in the world and the World Meteorological Organisation, who compares statistics from national weather services around the world, confirm that the Met Office is consistently one of the top two operational weather services in the world.
The new £97 million supercomputer is set to offer 13 times more power than the current system by 2017 and provide unprecedented levels of forecast accuracy and mapping capabilities. They are optimistic that these steps will help unlock the potential for expansion within the UK’s renewables sector over the coming decades, particularly through joint collaboration and focus, as epitomised by their work with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC).
LONGER TERM CLIMATOLOGY There is an increasing need to look further into the future to identify weather windows. Planning operations and booking equipment for the right time can be extremely complicated exercises. The Met Office undertook a special weather windows analysis for MT Hoojgaard so that they could plan the best time to install wind turbine foundations.
The organisation’s long term datasets were analysed to generate statistics on how many foundations were likely to be installed in various months, depending on vessel weather limits. This sensitivity study provided the client with valuable weather intelligence that not only helped them to estimate how many foundations they were likely to install in the season, but also to understand how much variability exists due to the nature of the offshore marine environment.
WEATHER EXPERTISE
As a world leading weather and climate service working at the cutting edge of science, the Met Office translates its knowledge into a practical and diverse range of services for the protection and prosperity of the offshore renewable industry, often with the collaboration and engagement of stakeholders.
Met Office weather expertise and back-up support can help you avoid unplanned downtime and the resulting costs of labour, fuel and materials and allow you to prioritise work according to different operating thresholds.
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