Wave and wind climate on the Web

Global Wave Statistics Online (globalwavestatisticsonline.com), a Website designed to provide information on the wave and wind climate across the world has been launched by BMT Fluid Mechanics. The company says its site gives access to 130 years of recorded observations from ships, which have been enhanced using the NMIMET process. As well as providing wind and wave information in 104 sea areas, the program has an additional database with a higher spatial resolution for the North European continental shelf, says BMT. Registered users can select and purchase data sets for individual sea areas and have the wave climate data displayed and available for download to their PC for further analysis or input to other user applications, says the company. The data can be purchased online using a credit card; it then remains available for use on subsequent visits to the site.