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Operator: DMI, Denmark

    Centre for Ocean and Ice (COI), at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), provides the MERSEA Baltic Sea component.

    We run an operational production of forecasts of the physical oceanographic conditions for the North Sea - Baltic Sea system using the DMI-BSHCmod 3D-ocean model. The model is based on the BSHCmod 3D-ocean model developed at Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH), Hamburg, Germany. The DMI version and model set-up of the model code is named DMI-BSHCmod.

    Configuration Main characteristics
    V1: DMI-BSHCmod Ver.2

    Configuration:

    • North Sea - Baltic Sea: 6 nautical miles
    • Nested area: 1 nautical mile (Kattegat, the Belt Sea, w. Baltic)
    • Forecast lenght: 54 hours
    • Model is run twice pr. day
    • Met. forcing: 5 km DMI-HIRLAM

    V2: DMI-BSHCmod Ver.3

    Configuration:

    • North Sea - Baltic Sea: 3 nautical miles
    • Nested area: 1/2 nautical miles (Kattegat, the Belt Sea, w. Baltic)
    • Forecast lenght: 60 hours
    • Model is run twice pr. day
    • Met. forcing: 5 km DMI-HIRLAM



Baltic Sea

DMI-BSHCmod area

Baltic Sea surface salinity from DMI-BSHCmod


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