Weather files can be loaded in 2 different ways in Avalon Offshore::
- Manually, from external grib files that users can get on the Internet or via Saildocs. See chapter on “loading external grib files” in the user’s guide.
- Automatically: If you have specified to Avalon your preferred weather sources, Avalon will download automatically from our server the necessary weather data based on your planned route points and your cruise estimated duration.
Available automatic weather sources are::
Winds (Direction, Speed and Gust)
NOAA
- GFS 1 degree: 400 hours, every 3 hours
- GFS 1 degree “Iridium”: 400 hours, every 3 hours
- GFS 0.25 degree: 400 hours, every 3 hours
- GFS ENS 1 degré: 21 hypothèses de météo
Meteo France
- Arpege 0.1 degree: 96 hours very hour
- Arpege 0.1 degree Iridium: 96 hours very hour
- Arome 0.025 degree: 36 hours every hour
- Arome HD 0.010 degree: 36 hours every hour
Deutsche Wetter Dienst
NAM (North American Mesoscale)
- Conus (Continental US sauf Alaska) 0.15 degree: 84 hours every hour
- Carribean and Central America 0.1 degree: 84 hours every hour
- Porto-Rico 0.05 degree: 48 hours every hour
- Hawai 0.05 degré: degree: 48 hours every hour
CEP
OpenSKIRON WRF
- France 12 km: 120 hours every 3 hour
- Italy 12 km
- Spain 12 km
- Aegean 12 km
- Ionian 12 km
- Taurus 12 km
- Crusades 12 km
- Sicily 4 km
- Tyrrhenian 4km
- Aegean NE 4km
- Aegean NW 4km
- Aegean SE 4km
- Aegean SW 4km
- Patras 4km
- Ionians 4km
Currents
Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information
- IBI (Iberia, Biscay/Gascogne, Ireland) 0.05 degree: 120 hour every hour
- Méditerranée 0.06 degree: 60 hours every hour
- Mondial 0.2 degree: 240 hour every hour
NCOM
Waves (swell and wind)
- FNMOC Monde 1 degree: 185 hours every 3 hour
- FNMOC Europe/Méditerranée 0.2 degree 72 hours every 6 hour
- NOAA Waves 0.5 degree: 240 hours every 3 hour
- Meteo France WAM Europe: 0.1 degree, 114 hours every 3 hours
- Meteo France WAM Worldwide: 0.5 degree, 114 hours every 3 hours
