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Challenge ID

CLS_OFF.3.3

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Title

Evaluation of the efficiency of the structure

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Originator of Challenge

SHELL/BMT

General description

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What data/products do you currently use ?

• Winds, waves and currents data (Waveclimate.com (also coastal locations) )

• Pressure at sea level (altimeter)
• Rainfall: TRMM, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
• Air temperature above the sea
• Monitoring of temperature/pressure and solar radiation conditions

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When do you use this kind of dataset?

These data and products are mainly used during design phases.

Some data are used in specific cases, for example:

• Air temperature above the sea: for design to evaluate the efficiency of pumps of FPSO (Floating production storage and offloading)

• Solar radiation: to evaluate the efficiency of platforms in the Middle East.

• Tair, SST, rainfall, cloud cover/lightning, wind, current, wave are needed il all phases of the project and mainly during development to evaluate the efficiency of the structure. Wind and wave data are useful to evaluate buoyancy perturbation

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What are your actual limitations and do you have a work around? 

n/a

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Needs and expectations on EO data

Air temperature and wind fields above land could be good to have thanks to EO data.

Challenge classification

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Lifecycle stage

Pre license

Exp.

Dev.

Prod.

Decom.

Score from impact

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Geographic context/restrictions

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Topographic classification / Offshore classification

All topographic classifications

Profiles are always needed, as well as the deep sea currents.

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Activity impacted/concerned

Money saving

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Urgency

(How quickly does the user need the solution)

The capability of having wind fields above the land and Tair above water would also be useful.

Information requirements

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Update frequency

SAR: 2 images per day would be good

Metocean data : OK for the time being

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Temporal resolution

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Spatial resolution

For offshore a resolution of 20 – 25 km is OK. The main difficulties are located on coastal area.

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Data quality

Ok for the time being

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Data Coverage and extent

Perhaps more easy access to some area outside the limitation [52°N-52° S].

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Example formats

Matlab or Fortran would be fine. But most important, the tools to read the products are needed.

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Timeliness

Ok for the time being

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Existing standards

Matlab or Fortran