Description

WCPS-coupled forecast is the component in the Water Cycle Prediction System (WCPS) that provides the coupled atmosphere-ocean-sea ice forecasts at a 1km resolution (0.008 x 0.008 degree) over the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It launches 4 times a day at 00, 06, 12, and 18 UTC and produces 84 hours forecast, based on the atmospheric model GEM, coupled with the ocean-ice model NEMO-CICE. The products from WCPS-coupled forecasts are (1) GEM : surface air temperatures, surface wind velocities, and surface runoff (2) NEMO-CICE : variety of lake/ocean sea ice variables, for example, lake levels and temperatures. They are designed to help forecasters issuing bulletins and warnings in ice-infestested waters for navigation, water level alert, emergency response, Search and Rescue, and CIS Sea Ice forecast.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
MSC Datamart AMQP	NetCDF		amqps://dd.meteo.gc.ca/*.WXO-DD.model_wcps.ocean-atmosphere.#
MSC Datamart AMQP	NetCDF		amqps://dd.weather.gc.ca/*.WXO-DD.model_wcps.ocean-atmosphere.#
MSC Datamart	NetCDF		https://dd.meteo.gc.ca/today/model_wcps/ocean-atmosphere/
MSC Datamart	NetCDF		https://dd.weather.gc.ca/today/model_wcps/ocean-atmosphere/
MSC Open Data documentation	HTML		https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/msc-data/nwp_wcps/readme_wcps_en/
MSC Open Data documentation	HTML		https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/msc-data/nwp_wcps/readme_wcps_fr/
MSC WMS link	XML		https://geo.meteo.gc.ca/geomet?lang=fr&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&layers=WCPS_1km_Runoff

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