HYDROMAP generates current and water level predictions for any coastal waters around the world.

Applications for HYDROMAP include:

• Currents for complex coastline geometry river-estuarine system and open geometry of the coastal shelf simultaneously.
• Current data files for other ASA models.
• Hindcast/forecast current simulations.
• Educational purposes.
  

Features

• Contains ASA's own GIS.
• Easy access and input of required data for current data simulations.
• Gridding tools allow the user to create a rectangular grid system and easily select locales within that grid structure for finer grid resolutions.
• Output of current data automatically linked to other ASA models.
• Variety of hydrodynamic file formats.
• Easily interpreted visual displays of animated currents.
  

HYDROMAP's Advanced gridding approach allows large areas of widely differing spatial scales to be addressed within one consistent model application.

Stepwise-Continuous-Variable-Rectangular grid (SCVR)

• Advanced finite difference nesting structure.
• Enables several levels of grid size to be constructed and executed simultaneously.
• Stepwise-Continuous - boundaries between successively larger and smaller grid sizes are managed in a consistent integer stepped manner.
• Variable - grid-cell sizes are variable over the grid domain.

Hydrodynamic model

• Continuous vertical profiles to represent velocity, temperature, and salinity.
• Solves the equations of motion for the water movement in a single simulation.

Data required to grid and force simulations

• Coastline definition to define the land-water boundary.
• Bathymetry contours or
  soundings to define the depth of water cells in the grid.
• Tidal elevation constituent harmonic definitions (elevation and phase).
• Optional long term wind stress forcing.
• Publicly available sources for required data are either packaged with HYDROMAP or can be easily accessed through HYDROMAP tools.
  
  

For more information about HYDROMAP by email please contact: Eoin Howlett