OPENHIDRA
OPENHIDRA provides on-demand coastal and estuarine forecasts and extreme event alerts, helping stakeholders anticipate and adapt to climate-related hazards such as coastal flooding, wave overtopping, sea-level rise and impacts on navigation and port safety. It can be used in planning mode, for climate-change and what-if scenarios, or in early-warning mode, for daily operational decision support. Fully integrated into EOSC and built on FAIR principles, OPENHIDRA is free at the point of use for any region in Europe.
OPENHIDRA is a new EOSC service for climate-change adaptation in ports and coastal areas, developed within the Climate-Adapt4EOSC project. It combines two services developed by LNEC (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Portugal): OPENCoastS, which produces high-accuracy coastal and estuarine circulation, wave and water quality forecasts for user-selected sites, and HIDRALERTA, which adds risk assessment, early warning and planning capabilities. Together they form a free, EOSC-based service that helps port authorities, coastal managers, municipalities and researchers anticipate risks linked to coastal flooding, wave overtopping, sea-level rise, navigation safety and port operations disruptions.
Within Climate-Adapt4EOSC, the aim is to develop OPENHIDRA as part of a broader EOSC-ready service offer. This will be achieved by improving its discoverability, interoperability and usability within the EOSC ecosystem and connecting it with FAIR data practices, climate-adaptation datasets, modelling workflows and EOSC Node infrastructure. OPENHIDRA will take advantage of the EOSC-centered collaborative research environment that includes a climate-adaptation ontology, an EOSC Climate-Adapt Knowledge Graph, five interoperability frameworks, FAIRification tools and new climate-adaptation services.
OPENHIDRA for EOSC
OPENHIDRA is being prepared within Climate-Adapt4EOSC as an EOSC-ready service that makes advanced coastal and port risk forecasting openly accessible. By integrating OPENCoastS and HIDRALERTA, it provides on-demand forecasts and alerts for water levels, currents, wave conditions, water quality, overtopping and port operational risks, and it can be run either in planning mode (climate-change and what-if scenarios, such as changes to port structures configuration, channel depths or a dune breach opening a new lagoon mouth) or in early-warning mode for daily operations. Integration with an EOSC Node will ensure that OPENHIDRA can be discovered, accessed and reused across the EOSC ecosystem, in line with EOSC principles of interoperability, FAIR data, service federation and cross-domain reuse.
For EOSC users, this means easier access to a specialized climate-adaptation service that links environmental data with predictive coastal models; for EOSC Nodes, it is a concrete example of how a domain-specific service can be onboarded to support research, policy and operational decisions in areas exposed to coastal climate risk.
EOSC Readiness
Track the readiness of the OPENHIDRA Service over the three-year implementation period of the Climate-Adapt4EOSC project
OPENHIDRA Resources
Video resources produced by project partners introduce the OPENHIDRA service, its objectives, key features and applications. They explain how OPENHIDRA supports access to, analysis of and use of coastal and port environmental data for climate-adaptation planning. Updated videos will be released over the course of the project.
Research Papers
As part of Climate-Adapt4EOSC, new research is being carried out to strengthen the scientific foundations of the OPENHIDRA service and support its integration into EOSC In line with the project’s commitment to Open Science and FAIR principles, the results will be published here and in peer-reviewed journals and made available through Open Access channels.
Service Development Team
LNEC (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil) leads the development of OPENHIDRA, drawing on its expertise in coastal and estuarine hydrodynamic modelling, wave dynamics, coastal early-warning systems, port engineering and information technology service and platform development. OPENHIDRA is designed to help users deploy simulations to support adaptation planning and physics-based decision-making. Within the project, LNEC provides the scientific, methodological and technical input needed to ensure the service meets real user needs and integrates cleanly into the EOSC ecosystem.
