Saga Explorer - Global Weather and Ocean Data for iPad

Saga Explorer (Saga) is your global source for premium weather, ocean and fishing GRIBs, coastal, offshore, and high seas text forecasts, buoy data and Nexrad radar loops.

Explore your data and augment your decision-making with analytical tools unique to Saga such as Trip Planner, Time Profiling, Route Finder, Thermocline and FishMap.

To take full advantage of Saga and blend GRIB data with text, buoy and radar content, a subscription to the OCENS Everon data service is highly recommended. Working together with Everon, Saga is able to rapidly deliver compressed GRIBs, text forecasts, buoy information, and Nexrad radar to any location on earth via satellite or wifi connections.

Time Profile looks through Time across all the frames of your data (a 3 day wave forecast may contain 12 or more ‘frames’ of data). Launch Time Profile and point to any spot on the current frame. Time Profiler displays a chart of weather or ocean conditions at that point through all frames of the GRIB you are using. Move your pointer around the screen and the Time Profiler graph dynamically adjusts itself to the target location and the changes in weather that are occurring through time at that spot.

Saga tells an awesome story for our fishermen. For you it adds global sea surface AND sub-surface temperature, sea surface height, and ocean currents to its huge met library. Sub-surface temperature data is converted to a thermocline chart of temperature at depth. Rapid changes in temperature at depth reveal not just the bottom of the mixed layer but also critical fishing insights. We further link the Thermocline and Mixed Layer information to our tool set of species-specific preferred temperature zones so you quickly see where the preferred temperatures for your target species are located at and under the surface. Click the FishMap tool and Saga creates a 2D chart identifying ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ zones for your target species.