A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) announces that it releases all historical and future ocean weather observations into the public domain for free use by the scientific community around the globe.
The data which has been collected by Maersk vessels since 2012 increases publicly available ocean weather data by 28 percent.
The goal is to aid climate research and weather forecasts by providing weather data from the world’s oceans, where ground level data coverage is slim, and most data comes from satellite observations which have their limitations.With all 300 Maersk-owned vessels sharing data multiple times a day, Maersk shares more than 7,000 observations every day. Some vessels are even live feeding data to weather services around the globe. In collaboration with the National Meteorological Service of Germany, Maersk has installed Automated Weather Stations on several of its vessels. These are calibrated research-grade measurement stations which collect a greater variety of data points at a higher quality, even further improving the contribution to weather forecasting and climate science.