Hub Azul Oeiras Mar | IPMA is made up of four components that articulate with each other and are spaced apart, working as a network to guarantee the established objectives.

Oeiras Mar Centre of the Collaborative Network for Ocean Technology, The building to be constructed is adjacent to the IPMA building in Algés:

- A 600 metre hangar² including an overhead crane capable of supporting suspended loads of up to 5 tonnes and equipped with a test tank, workshop area, dry test area, support warehouse, office area to support researchers from the national and international scientific system;

- An area of around 500 metres² to provide logistical support to organisations at the interface between research and the economic sector;

- An area of around 300 metres² for storing samples in liquid media (biological and geological);

- “Very High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Ocean-Atmosphere Modelling System”, which includes a supercomputer made up of a structure with dozens of servers and thousands of processing cores, connected by a very high-speed network structure of 200 gigabits or more and with an immediate data storage system of dozens of Tb, which will make it possible to model the atmosphere and ocean in high resolution, over the Atlantic zone of national responsibility;

- Placing equipment and sensors on board the IPMA research vessel “Mário Ruivo” to consolidate the marine network supporting fishing, offshore aquaculture and climate change in the ocean:

- A permanent observation station with conductivity, temperature, pressure, dissolved oxygen, turbidity and passive acoustic sensors;

- A complementary continuous profiler system;

- An undulating primary productivity meter and installation of ocean morphology sensors;

- Two meteorological radars in the Azores archipelago (S. Miguel and Flores):

• Two automatic weather stations;
• Two thunderstorm detectors
• A sensor installation tower.