Marine Weather Decision Support System

Helping to Save Lives at Sea

WDT's Marine Decision Support System is the world’s most comprehensive and easy to use global weather information service now available to mariners worldwide.

WDT's Marine Decision Support System (MDSS) shows you the prevailing conditions at your location anywhere in the world, tracking you or your craft while automatically sending you alerts for your changing position. MDSS features the world’s most advanced predictive technology, so you can take weather conditions into account as you chart your course up to five days ahead.

  • Receive best-in-class marine weather from over 10,000 global data nodes
  • Access marine weather via satellite/GPRS/broadband delivery close to shore or on the high seas
  • Enjoy the fully-integrated user-friendly Interface featuring universal weather icons

  • Receive High Resolution Data delivered via narrowband satellite networks

Global Sources

WDT’s marine weather information is obtained from government sources, military, commercial aircraft, commercial shipping, and national weather service providers from over 180 primary sources. These weather data resources are aggregated globally from over 10,000 data nodes.

Institutional Sources

WDT’s global weather system receives its data from major global sources and provides updated information to customers within minutes of receipt.  Weather information is obtained from governments, military, commercial aircraft, commercial shipping, and national weather service providers from over 180 sources. Primary sources include the UK Meteorological Office, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in addition to a wide variety of public and private weather sources from all over the world.

Filtered Data

WDT marine data is processed, filtered and “cleansed” for uniformity and error correction, formatted into a homogenous data structure for each data/file and type, then parsed into local or regional data blocks to provide truly localized information.

Forecasting Model

WDT marine weather models used by the service are known to be the most accurate and most up-to-date numerical weather forecasting models, in addition to its own proprietary numerical model.

Proprietary System

WDT utilizes a proprietary derivation of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model-- a next-generation mesocale numerical weather prediction system designed to serve both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs.

Architecture

WDT features multiple dynamical cores, a 3-dimensional variational (3DVAR) data assimilation system, and a software architecture allowing for computational parallelism and system extensibility.

WRF Model

WDT’s WRF model is suitable for a broad spectrum of applications across scales ranging from meters to thousands of kilometers. Critical to the forecast accuracy is proprietary localization/regionalization of the numerical models to factor in the algorithmic physics relating to local variations, localized atmospheric chemistry, land surface modeling (physical, urban, vegetation) and regional climate modeling.

Marine Weather Decision Support System
For more information, contact

Steve Gallien (603) 554.6217