Modeling & monitoring
This is an Ocean Digital Twin
An ocean digital twin is a copy of your stretch of ocean, built from two parts: a GPU-accelerated model that resolves the real physics in real time, and targeted in-situ monitoring and satellite data that ground-truth the model.
The modeling and monitoring are fused into one operational pipeline. Working on demand, at any scale, anywhere in the world.
Why it matters
Can't I just measure it?
Instruments record the water where they sit, and only up to now. Everything between them, and everything ahead of them, has to be inferred. Monitoring alone tells you what the water is doing at a handful of points. Modeling tells you what it is doing everywhere in between, and why. The instruments keep the model outputs validated against the ocean. Here is a discharge on the seabed: what three moorings saw, what the twin resolved, and how far apart those two pictures are.
Capabilities
What can it do?
One system, running continuously over your region: physics and biogeochemistry from the basin down to the meter, your operation inside the model, and the uncertainty quantified.
Physical & biogeochemical modeling
A mechanistic model that solves the equations of motion, coupled with biogeochemistry.
Multiscale nesting
Hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic models linked seamlessly from the basin-scale to the site locale.
Intervention-ocean coupling
Your operation is in the model. See how it interacts with the surrounding water.
Hyperlocal forecasting
Hindcast, nowcast, and forecast for operational planning and verification.
Continuous validation
Built-in skill assessment against real data keeps uncertainty quantified.
Cloud-based reporting
Operational metrics and forecasts in near real time, on any cloud or on-prem.
The three parts
How does it work?
A model that resolves the physics, instruments that keep it honest, and the questions the pair of them answers. Each has its own page.
Physics, resolved to the meter
A mechanistic model that solves the equations of ocean motion and biogeochemistry, fast enough to run in a loop.
Explore →MonitoringReal data from the water
Purpose-built instruments that keep the twin synchronized with the ocean, and validated against it.
Explore →ApplicationsAnswers to ocean questions
Where the twin goes to work: resolve what is happening, quantify it, and make it defensible.
Explore →See what your ocean is doing
Tell us about your region and what you need to measure. We will tell you what a digital twin can resolve for you, and how quickly.