Historical Weather

Accurate, localised historical weather data for your site.

Our numerical models generate accurate historical wind, wave and current data for any location on Earth. View our existing datasets here or contact us to discuss getting historical weather data for your desired location.

MetOcean Solutions’ hindcast data provides high quality marine weather information from multi-year numerical model simulations for any location on Earth.

MetOcean Solutions Historic Data

Generated by our team of expert scientists using a suite of in-house atmospheric and oceanographic models, our historical data archives reach back to 1979. These datasets offer key baseline information for project scoping, offshore and coastal design, project planning and environmental impact assessments.

Our hindcast data has been used in offshore and coastal projects all over the world for the assessment of engineering design thresholds within the marine environment, as well as the evaluation of the impact of structures on the marine environment. Historical weather data can also be used for the location and design of wind farms, research into tidal power generation, air quality studies and the regional planning of infrastructure and land use.

Time-series

Time-series of ocean and atmospheric parameters at specific locations.

GIS Layers

Geographic information system layers of summary statistics at specific locations.

Gridded data

Gridded data of met ocean parameters indifferent data formats.

Summary statistics

At specific locations and return period extreme analysis.

Wave spectra

2D wave spectra and kinematics for anywhere on the planet

Customised hindcast service

Rapidly implemented, fully calibrated and validated.

Take a quick tour.

A platform to access and download analytics and time series of historical marine weather data – anywhere on Earth, exactly where you need.

Take a quick tour and discover all the capabilities of the Hindcast Portal freely available to you.

News

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A 3,000-year wave height event during Cyclone Gabrielle

On 14 February 2023, during Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle - the worst storm to hit Aotearoa New Zealand this century - Port of Napier’s Wave Rider Buoy measured significant wave heights (Hs) of up to 6 meters, before waves broke it free from its mooring. Although the buoy was situated just beyond the breaking zone, it is likely that a single large individual breaking wave or intense white capping could have led to the breakage of the buoy mooring.

High resolution atmospheric forecast and hindcast models for wind energy in New Zealand

To support the New Zealand government’s net zero target, the decarbonisation of the energy sector is becoming a priority.

Last week, MetOcean Senior Physical Oceanographer Dr Severin Thiebaut and MetService Research Scientist Dr Ulrich Ebling, attended with great interest the 2022 NZ Wind Energy Conference and Offshore Wind Workshop in Wellington.

New research expands the current knowledge of Aotearoa’s complex wave climate

MetOcean Solutions’ expert oceanographer Dr João Albuquerque recently published a study on wave partitioned hindcast data from New Zealand waters.

MetOcean Solutions scientist publishes long-awaited study on the Taranaki wave climate

MetOcean Solutions’ wave modeller, Dr Henrique Rapizo, is the lead author of the recently published study that fills a two-decade-long knowledge gap of the New Zealand (NZ) Taranaki regional wave climate.