PREVIMER is a pre-operational system aiming to provide a wide range of users, from private individuals to professionals, with short-term forecasts about the coastal environment along the French coastlines bordering the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea.
Observation data and digital modelling tools first provide 48-hour forecasts of sea states, currents, sea water levels and temperatures.
The follow-up of an increasing number of biological parameters will, in time, complete this overview of coastal environment.
Working in partnership with the French Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine, SHOM), the French National Weather Service (Météo France), the French public science and technology research institute (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD), the European Institute of Marine Studies (Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, IUEM) and Brest-Iroise Science and Technology Park (Technopôle Brest Iroise), IFREMER (the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) is supplying the technologies needed to ensure this pertinent information, available daily on Internet, and stored at the Operational Coastal Oceanographic Data Centre.
Since 2006, PREVIMER publishes the results of demonstrators assigned to limited geographic areas and to specific applications. This system remains experimental.
The following topics will be covered:
Lastly, PREVIMER provides researchers and R&D departments with modelling tools and access to the database, in which the observation data and the modelling results are stored, to undertake environmental studies on new sites.
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