EUSKOOS
Operational Oceanography System of the Basque Country
EuskOOS is the operational oceanography system of the Basque coast operated by Euskalmet with the technologica advice of AZTI. It has three objectives:
- To provide a precise description of the current state of the sea along the CAE coastline.
- Proportioning continuous predictions of the future conditions of the sea.
- Provide ocean-meteorological products to the Basque coast users.
EuskOOS data are integrated in many products related to the sectors of the so-called blue economy and sustainable management of resources.
Benefits for your company / product
- Improving predictions of coastal maritime risk
- To optimise actions related to rescue, maritime safety, response to climate change and the fight against pollution.
- Improve the signposting of risk areas, with special emphasis on the safety of activities such as bathing on beaches, diving, surfing, sport fishing, recreational sailing, etc.
- Knowing and predicting surface currents, salinity and temperature of the Gulf of Biscay
- Prediction of the energy resource (marine energies) in real time.
- Grouped access to oceanographic information:
- video-monitoring systems of currents on beaches (KostaSystem);
- Real-time weather conditions in the ports of Bilbao and Pasaia;
- Real-time data from deep-sea buoys, tide gauges and high-frequency radars;
- operational oceanography activity of the Basque coast;
- prediction of the energy resource in the Mutriku Wave Power Plant, BIMEP test platform, position of the Donostia buoy;
- latest developments related to Basque oceanography.
- Link to portals such as Emodnet, marine services such as Copernicus, other ocean observation systems (GOOS, EuroGOOS, IBI-ROOS), etc.
Sectors of application
- Public administrations (civil protection, road safety, etc.)
- Tourism and leisure sector
- Marine energy sector
- Sectors and economic activities in which the weather and climate have special relevance (agriculture, fishing, etc.).
- Society in general
