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Forecast Services

yr.no
Weather warnings and other meteorological information. A service from Norwegian Meteorological Institute and The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).

Se havnivå
Storm surge and tide warning. A service from The Norwegian Mapping Authority and Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

Badevann (yr.no)
Swimming temperatures collected from bathing places in Norway.

BarentsWatch
Norwegian monitoring and information system for the northern seas and coastal areas. A service from the Norwegian Coastal Administration.

Havvarsel
Sea surface forecast. A service provided by the Institute of Marine Research and Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

Ventusky
Web application developed by InMeteo.

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Ocean and Sea Ice Models

Forecast models:

Barents Sea
The Barents-2.5 model is a coupled ocean and sea ice model covering the Barents Sea and areas around Svalbard.

Norwegian Coast
Norkyst-800 is used as the main forecast tool for ocean forecasting at the coast of Norway.

Stormsurge
The Stormsurge model is MET Norway’s main forecasting model for sea level and stormsurge.

Pan-Arctic
Topaz forecast system for ocean and sea ice at MET Norway, disseminated by the pan-European Copernicus Marine Service.

Hindcast/Reanalysis:

SVIM (1960 - 2011)
An archive for the Nordic Seas, covering the period 1960 - 2011.

Topaz (1991 - 2021)
Arctic Ocean Physics Reanalysis with the Topaz model.

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Wave Models

Forecast models:

Nordic Seas
WaveWatch III is a third generation spectral wave model that computes the propagation of wave spectra.

Pan-Arctic
WAM wave model system at MET Norway, disseminated by the pan-European Copernicus Marine Service.

Norwegian Coast
WAM-800m is a Norwegian coast wave forecast system.

Hindcast/Reanalysis:

NORA10
An atmospheric downscaling of the ERA-40 reanalysis and wave hindcast covering the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea, and the Barents Sea.

NORA3
The NORA3 wave hindcast is produced by running the wave model WAM with wind forcing from the HARMONIE-AROME hindcast with 3km horizontal resolution.

WAM (1985 - 2021)
The Arctic Ocean Wave Hindcast system at 3km resolution.

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Archives

THREDDS
An archive service operated by MET Norway for publishing historical and current research data.

Weater API
The MET Weather API is an interface to a selection of data produced by MET Norway.

Copernicus Marine Data Store
Ocean product catalogue for downloading hindcast and forecast data from the Copernicus program.

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Tools

DNORA
An open-source package for dynamical downscaling of historical and forecast wave data.

OpenDrift
A framework for simulating objects drifting in the ocean.

Wave Tracing
An open source package which computes the propagation-path of ocean waves.

Wavy
An open source package developed at MET Norway with the aim of easing the task of wave model validation.

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Validation

Ocean and Sea Ice models:

Sea Ice Concentration (Sirano/Ice Charts)
Sea Ice validation of Barents-2.5km model against Sirano and Ice Charts.

Sea Surface Temperature (Sentinel3)
Validation of Sea Surface Temperature of Barents 2.5km and Norkyst-DA models against Sentinal3.

Temperature/salinity profiles (Argo Floats)
Validation of temperature ans salinity profiles against CMEMS Argo Floats.

Wave and Wind models:

Wind and Waves (E39-observations)
Developed at Met Norway in colloboration with Statens Vegvesen (SVV).

Adress Oslo:

Meteorological institute's head office:

Henrik Mohns plass 1
0371 OSLO

Adress Oslo:

R & D department for ocean and ice are located in Forskningsparken:

Gaustadalléen 21
0349 Oslo

Adress Bergen:

R & D department for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology:

Allégaten 70
5007 Bergen

Phone:

+47 22 96 30 00

E-mail:

ocean@met.no