Another month went by and time flyes when you are having fun! We believe information is power and we keep focus on helping to analyse ocean data. This month we worked again with MetWind to make there work easier. MetWIND is focused on providing added-value weather forecasting, specific for competitive sailing.Using our expertise in GRIB [...]
Looks like every month is getting busier and we are happy to ve this way! The bay of Palma in March is full of olimpic sailors and we helped then with our Weather system. 8 points of real time information available for all of the Trofeo Princesa Sofia sailors. Also combined [...]
February is the shortest month of the year. We have done so many thing, we have worked in the canary islands, from Barcelona, we had a course in rome and of course in our base at the balearic islands. We have a brand new weather station at the Real Club Náutico de Palma. Many sailors [...]
We inaugurate a new cicle of stories at OceanDrivers. We are doing so many things at OceanDrivers that we did not had time to show it. We want to change it and make you participate more in the work OceanDrivers is doing right now. We will start on how did we end 2017 and what [...]
OceanDrivers will provide a full weather system for the sailing event Trofeo Princesa Sofía which will be taking place from March 28th to April 4th in Palma de Mallorca. The system, available at https://trofeoprincesasofia.oceandrivers.com/, will comprise accurate real-time information from several fixed weather stations: CN Arenal Sailing Club (CNA). Can Pastilla Sailing Club (CMSAP). [...]
Currents can be defined as the continuous flow of water from one place to another (definition by the UK National Oceanography Centre). Many factors can generate currents, such as gravitational forces, rotation of the earth, wind, water conditions gradients and/or geographical landscapes. Furthermore currents can be classified into surface currents, which comprehend the top 400m [...]
The 2014 Sailing ISAF Worlds have recently concluded in Santander, and they have been a perfect scenario for OceanDrivers' R+D+i products, EasyCurrents and EasyWind to be proved as a major support tool; where OceanDrivers' data management, software and sailing expertise have successfully been put into the spotlight. The sailing regattas during the worlds have been [...]
OceanDrivers will be travelling to Rio de Janeiro from August 1st - 5th, in order to establish synergies with the Brazilian Sailing Team. Nowadays sailing is becoming a highly professionalised sport, where performance and results can be optimized by technological means. New sensors, and data collection devices are arising, and can provide huge quantities of [...]
On December 2013, OceanDrivers traveled to Rio de Janeiro to carry out tasks for different projects, amongst which was the verification of a scientific tidal model for Guanabara Bay, using EasyCurrents empiric measurements in contrast with a current model provided by Tidetech for December 6th 2013. Our team has analysed EasyCurrents' samples results, and has [...]
OceanDrivers will be travelling to Rio de Janeiro from December, 1st 2013 to December, 15th 2013, regarding the tidal and current models for the bay of Guanabara, where the Olympic sailing race courses will be placed during Río 2016, related to EasyCurrents project, where model verification and testing tasks will be carried out. Rio will [...]
