Native plugin for QGIS
We are happy to share that the oceanum-datamesh plugin (v0.1.5 Experimental) has officially been approved and is now live in the QGIS Plugin Repository. This integration brings the power of the Oceanum Datamesh—an advanced cloud service for environmental data—directly into your QGIS desktop environment. GIS professionals and environmental scientists can now bypass manual downloads and […]
We present our Wave Spectra Calibration App
Calibrating a wave hindcast against observations is normally a project in itself: assembling collocations, fitting a correction, validating it, then applying it across the full record. We’ve built that entire workflow into one app. Pick a point anywhere in the Oceanum hindcast, at global or regional scale. The app gathers the matching altimeter collocations (Ribal […]
Need wave spectra? Datamesh now has 86,000+ spectral sites
A year ago, we counted 70,000 directional wave spectra sites in Datamesh. We were curious to see how that had grown — and there are now more than 86,000 spectral sites available. Not just wave height. Not just peak period. Full directional spectra. That means decades of hindcast wave spectra ready to access for […]
New data release: Taiwan Strait metocean hindcast
We have a new high-resolution metocean hindcast available for the Taiwan Strait – and it’s one of the most detailed datasets we’ve produced for this region. The dataset covers 33 years of wave climate (1993–2025), 10 years of 3D hydrodynamics (2015-2024), and 25 years of winds, waves and currents during tropical cyclone events (2001–2025). What’s […]
Operational wave forecast now available for Southwest Western Australia
Oceanum has published a new operational wave forecast for the southwestern and western Australian coast, providing high-resolution wave predictions across one of Australia’s most energetic coastal environments. The dataset covers the full regional domain at 5 km resolution (112–116.5°E, 34–27°S), with two high-resolution 500 m nested grids over the Abrolhos Islands and Perth, areas of […]
Robust metocean analysis starts with obtaining accurate time series data
This first crucial step often takes much longer than expected, especially when working in an unfamiliar region. Which dataset and duration best suits the location and application? Our Metocean Data App is designed to simplify this first step in your workflow – providing rapid access to a curated catalog of validated data, worldwide. 🔗 metocean-data.app.oceanum.io […]
Supercharging THREDDS
THREDDS (Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services) servers are crucial for optimizing access to many important gridded earth-system datasets. However, any heavy user will tell you they can exhibit annoying limitations like performance bottlenecks, configuration complexities, and stability issues when operating under high loads. We asked ourselves – can we overcome some of these limitations […]
New Zealand wave hindcast, now with 1 km nested coastal domains
We’ve published a new high-resolution wave hindcast for New Zealand on Datamesh, Oceanum.io’s environmental data platform. The dataset covers the full New Zealand domain at 5km resolution, with nine nested 1km grids over key coastal regions: Auckland, Tauranga, Hawke Bay, Waikato, Taranaki, Cook Strait, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland. The record runs hourly from 1993 to […]
A great week hosting our Chilean colleagues in New Zealand.
We brought together coastal professionals for an New Zealand Coastal Society regional event at the Beca office in Auckland, where we had excellent talks on tsunami hazard by Patricio Catalan and future coastal solutions by Patricio Winckler. Following this, we had a hands-on workshop in Raglan combining field observations with technical discussions about data science. […]
BSH operational ocean current forecasts are now available on OCEANUM.IO Datamesh
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) runs the HIROMB-BOOS Model (HBM) four times daily across the North and Baltic Seas — and makes the results openly available. Two resolutions are now on Datamesh: 900 m — German Bight and western Baltic Sea (25 vertical levels) 5 km — Full North and Baltic Sea […]