Services
Metocean Consultancy
We are professional consultants who give expert advice in the field of meteorology and oceanography (metocean). High quality and reliable metocean information is fundamental to the success of any marine project – to ensure safe and efficient design, installation and operation. Each metocean project is unique, dependent not only on the location and engineering requirements, but also client processes and preferences. Whilst standard off-the-shelf analyses prove a useful starting point for site characterisation, often the most interesting and important features require more careful consideration.
At MetOceanWorks, our expertise ranges from implementing accepted industry standards through to innovative and bespoke solutions, with many blends in between. This flexibility allows us to work closely with our clients to understand their specific requirements and tailor our solutions to the ideal mix of traditional and cutting-edge, industry standard and client standard.
Use our experienced metocean team to gain a thorough understanding of the meteorological and oceanographic processes that influence your site. We use state-of-the-art numerical models to simulate estuarine, coastal and offshore systems, and apply the very latest analysis techniques to provide high quality metocean information globally.
Metocean Operability Statistics
During the planning phase of a project life-cycle, assessing and mitigating risk is paramount to success. A detailed understanding of metocean processes can maximise efficiency, reduce costs, enhance safety and minimise the environmental impact of marine operations. Whether describing normal conditions, quantifying extreme behaviour or analysing operational sequences, MetOceanWorks offers a host of options to provide valuable insight in this area. Standard offerings include:
- Joint Frequency Distributions and Rose plots
- Seasonal and Spatial Statistics
- Persistence Statistics
- Sequential Weather Downtime Analysis
- Route Planning Statistics
Further, our extensive consultancy and modelling experience allows us the flexibility to work closely with clients to extend and adapt our solutions to meet the often unique challenges of their project.
Metocean Design Basis
Accurate quantification of metocean conditions is essential for the safe and efficient design, and operation, of offshore installations. A metocean design basis combines information from detailed analyses of wind, wave, current, water level and other metocean parameters. It accounts for extreme environmental conditions associated with return periods of 100 years and beyond. At MetOceanWorks, we have expert knowledge of establishing optimal metocean design criteria including:
- Extreme Value Analysisg. Peaks Over Threshold, Block Maxima, Initial Distribution
- Combining Short and Long Term Distributions e.g. Battjes, Tromans and Vanderschuren
- Joint Distributions e.g. Conditional, Heffernan and Tawn, Environmental Contours
- Extreme Total Water-Levels
- Wave Fatigue Analysis
- Breaking Wave Assessment
We deliver high quality metocean data and expert interpretation to support both preliminary and detailed design. All of our design criteria reports are prepared to relevant international standards (e.g. DNV, ISO and IEC) to meet the rigorous requirements of the offshore industry and certification authorities.
Numerical Modelling and Data Services
Our modelling expertise provides global, regional and site-specific data to support decision making and analyses throughout a metocean project. We have extensive experience in modelling estuarine, coastal and offshore systems which we regularly use to support our consultancy, operability and design studies, as well as environmental impact assessments. Data can also be supplied to third parties either as time-series or spatial datasets. Routinely deployed models include:
- SWAN (Simulating Waves Nearshore) wave model
- MIKE 21 hydrodynamic, wave and sediment transport modelling software suite
- Global and regional tidal models
Not only do we maintain and run state-of-the-art models in-house, we also have access to a vast wealth of external hindcast data. We have established relationships and efficient tools for accessing data from HYCOM, NCEP, NASA, ECMWF and other sources.
Software Solutions
Often the analysis of metocean data can be cumbersome. With extensive experience creating bespoke metocean software in the MATLAB environment, we offer a wide range of solutions. We provide tools through intuitive graphical interfaces or simply as code which experienced metocean engineers can use in the MATLAB environment. Off the shelf packages currently facilitate:
- Data Exploration
- Operational Analysis
- Extreme Value Analysis
- Sequential Downtime Analysis
- Tidal Analysis
Most of this functionality is bundled in the MetOceanWorks Toolbox. Its focus is straightforward: to provide the metocean engineer with the tools they need so that they can focus their time more efficiently on gaining a critical understanding of metocean processes and data integrity. We are happy to work with you to customise these tools to better meet your company’s individual requirements and processes. We additionally provide MATLAB mentoring and training.
