Regional Hydrodynamic Model Outputs of the NOAA Northwest Gulf of America Operational Forecast System (NWGOFS)

Description

NCEI manages the long-term archive of model output files for the hydrodynamic model-based Operation Forecast Systems (OFS) developed and implemented by the National Ocean Service (NOS) to support navigation in U.S. waters. This system is a national network of hydrodynamic models that provides operational nowcast and forecast guidance (out to 48 hours) on parameters such as water levels, water temperature, salinity, and currents. OFS runs on NOAA's High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS) in a standard Coastal Ocean Modeling Framework (COMF) developed by The Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS). The Northern Gulf of America Operational Forecast System (NGOFS) was implemented by NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS) to provide the maritime user community with short-term predictions of water levels, water currents, water temperatures and salinity of the northern Gulf of America. NGOFS used a numerical hydrodynamic model to generate the nowcast and forecast information; therefore, they should be considered as model-generated nowcast and forecast guidance. NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS) upgraded the previous Northern Gulf of America Operational Forecast System (NGOFS, NEGOFS, and NWGOFS) to the new Northern Gulf of America Operational Forecast System (NGOFS2) which extended the model domain to cover Lower Mississippi River, Barataria Bay, Lake Pontchartrain, Corpus Christi Bay, and Mexican coastal water without sacrificing model resolutions.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Landing page for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc:C01354/html
0 NOAA NCEI dataset information page. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/weather-climate-models/co-ops-operational-forecast
21 Direct download for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/oa/prod-model/index.html#operational-nowcast-and-forecast-hydrodynamic-model-systems-co-ops/access/northwest-gulf-of-america-operational-forecast-system-nwgofs/
21 THREDDS Data Server (TDS) for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/model/nwgofs_catalog.html
0 NCEI home page with information, data access and contact information. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
21 NOAA CO-OPS dataset information page. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/models.html

Tags

  • national ocean service
  • national climatic data center
  • doc/noaa/nos/co-ops
  • nesdis
  • operational models
  • oceans
  • water temperature
  • surface winds
  • sea surface height
  • noaa
  • ocean temperature
  • ocean winds
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • other
  • center for operational oceanographic products and services
  • longshore currents
  • models
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncdc
  • coastal processes
  • salinity/density
  • national centers for environmental information
  • tides
  • tidal currents

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