Oceanography

Puertos del Estado has developed and maintains systems for measuring and forecasting the marine environment with the fundamental objective of providing the Spanish Port System with essential oceanographic and meteorological data for its design and operation, thereby reducing costs and increasing the efficiency, sustainability and safety of port operations.

The benefits of this activity are not limited solely to the port environment but also aim to be a service open to society and other institutions. This is primarily provided through Puertos del Estado website and the Imar mobile application, available on iOS and Android.

The system consists of measurement networks (buoys, tide gauges, and high-frequency radars), prediction services (wave, sea level, currents, and water temperature), and climate datasets, which describe both current maritime climate conditions and their change scenarios in the 21st century.