Project Description
Web-service for tidal elevations and currents predictions
Accurate information about ocean tide currents is essential for renewable energy site assessment or evaluation of oceanic conditions for offshore implementation.
The TIPS website provides tidal information at two levels:
- Free demonstration product: one week of tidal currents on any point of the ocean, on a fixed period (January 2014)
- Paying service: 7/7 24/24 access to tidal currents and elevations on any period and any point of the ocean + additional diagnostics
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Web-service for tidal elevations and currents predictions
Accurate information about ocean tide currents is essential for renewable energy site assessment or evaluation of oceanic conditions for offshore implementation.
The TIPS website provides tidal information at two levels:
- Free demonstration product: one week of tidal currents on any point of the ocean, on a fixed period (January 2014)
- Paying service: 7/7 24/24 access to tidal currents and elevations on any period and any point of the ocean + additional diagnostics
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NOVELTIS has implemented accurate high resolution tidal atlases on global, regional and local bases, using hydrodynamic modelling as well as the assimilation of tide gauge and satellite altimetry tidal observations.
- Use of the most recent bathymetric databases
- High resolution unstructured grids
- Tidal atlases were carefully validated using tide gauges and satellite altimetry data
- Computed in two horizontal dimensions and they provide mean-depth tidal information
- 3-D tidal currents can also be estimated locally (on demand)
This type of mesh is of particular interest in areas of steep topographic gradients, where the tidal currents generally show high variability, as well as in the shallow waters, where the energy dissipation is the highest, due to the bottom friction.
Results
Currents roses giving the main directions of the velocities
Dates and elevations of high and low waters
Lowest astronomical tide level (LAT)