On Tuesday the pioneering T-WindPred project was officially presented by Rosario Martínez Chazarra, Councillor for Tourism in the Torrevieja City Council; César Azorín Molina, a senior scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) since 2021; Marcos Martínez Roig, CSIC expert in artificial intelligence models for environmental data and weather forecasting; and Ricardo Granados, representative of Proyecto Mastral.
T-WindPred is an innovative initiative launched by the Torrevieja City Council through its TI·LAB (University of Alicante branch in Torrevieja), with the support of Proyecto Mastral, which contributes essential meteorological data to enhance the predictive model.
The project, currently under development and expected to be completed by summer 2025, aims to create a web-based tool (Climatoc-Lab Web) that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate and forecast wind speed maps for the Torrevieja area. It leverages real-time data from meteorological stations operated by Proyecto Mastral, AEMET, AVAMET, and SIAR.
Focused on short-term forecasting, the tool will predict wind speeds for the next 12 hours based on data recorded over the previous 12 hours (with a one-hour temporal resolution).
The T-WindPred system holds promising applications in areas such as tourism and leisure, beach management, nautical activities, fire prevention, and more. Future development plans include features like beach flag status forecasting, automated alerts, historical data access, and enhanced AI capabilities for predicting wind direction and gusts.
