Water level forecasts for the eastern Gulf of Finland

The paper presents results of development and verification of the automated water level forecasting system for the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland with advance time 36 hours, which is based on two-dimensional hydrodynamic model of the Baltic Sea BSM3. The model is driven by the regional highresolution atmospheric model HIRLAM. Boundary conditions in the Danish Straits are received from a big scale model of the Baltic and North Seas (OPMODEL). The system works at the North-West Regional Administration of Hydro-Meteorological Service of Russia (NWHMS)