Coastal Observatory, Liverpool Bay, Irish Sea

Modelling & Forecasting

	Ocean-Shelf Model
	Irish Sea Model
	Wave Model
	Mesoscale Model
	POLCOMS Model

Ocean-Shelf Model

Irish Sea Model

Wave Model

Mesoscale Model

Predictions for the next 36 hours are provided by the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory in association with the Met Office. There are forecasts of currents, waves, sea temperature and salinity, as well as wind, air temperature, specific humidity, sensible heat flux, cloud clover and precipitation.

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Ocean-Shelf Model
This POL numerical model runs daily at the Met Office predicting mean currents, sea temperature and salinity. A subsection of predictions is shown covering the Irish Sea from the sea surface down to the sea bed.

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Sea Temperature | Salinity | Elevation

Irish Sea Model
This POL numerical model runs daily at the Met Office predicting mean currents, sea temperature and salinity.

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Mean Currents | Sea Temperature | Salinity | Point Profiles

Wave Model
This numerical model runs twice daily at the Met Office predicting wind and swell waves. A subsection is shown covering the Irish Sea.

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Swell Waves | Wind Waves

Mesoscale Model
This Met Office atmospheric numerical model, called the Mesoscale Model, runs 4 times a day and gives forecasts every three hours up to a day and a half ahead. A subsection is shown covering the Irish Sea.

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Air Temperature | Wind vectors | Specific Humidity
Sensible Heat Flux | Cloud Cover | Precipitation

POLCOMS
POLCOMS is the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Coastal Ocean Modelling System. It comprises a baroclinic three-dimensional model with the ability to run in regions which include both the deep ocean and the continental shelf, together with linked sediment and ecosystem models.

Nested POLCOMS numerical models run daily at POL, predicting several water quality parameters including mean currents, sea temperature and salinity

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POLCOMS MRCS model (Met Office)
The Medium Resolution Continental Shelf (MRCS) model is an application of the POLCOMS hydrodynamics model coupled to the European Regional Sea Ecosystem Model (ERSEM) for the northwest European continental shelf at ~7km resolution. This is run pre-operationally at the Met office to simulate various parameters of the shelf seas, including physical variables such as temperature and salinity, and biological variables such as plankton growth and nutrient concentration.

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Status

last updated on 15th January 09 » View all status messages

Models
31st May 2008
POLCOMS web outputs are still in experimental mode and are unlikely to show the latest forecasts.