BOOS MODELLING PROGRAMME AGREEMENTModelling Programme Agreement • May 29th, 2019
In response to HELCOM Recommendation 12/6 1991 regarding development of an oil drift forecasting system, BSH and SMHI have developed an operational hydrodynamic Baltic Sea model, HIROMB, with a capacity, as a routine, to provide the Baltic Sea states with data necessary to fulfil their national duties with regard to navigational safety, Search & Rescue and environmental protection purposes. The original co- operation Agreement was called HIROMB Co-operation Agreement, dated 1995-08-15, and was signed by representatives from SMHI and BSH. The latest co-operation agreement, eg the HIROMB Agreement, dated 2007-05-17, had participants from Denmark, Germany, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Finland and Sweden. Participants from Poland and Lithuania signed the Agreement later on in 2007. At the HIROMB Co- operation Annual Meeting 20140507 in Riga it was decided that The HIROMB Co-operation would change name to the BOOS Modelling Programme in alignment with the decision to be incorporated as a Progra
