The Ocean Archive System searches our original datasets as they were submitted to us, not individual points or profiles. If you want to search and retrieve ocean profiles in a common format, or objectively analyzed fields, your better option may be to use one of our project applications. See: Access Data
OAS accession Detail for 0002162
| << previous | |revision: 3 |
| accessions_id: | 0002162 | archive |
|---|---|
| Title: | National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Regional Ocean Forecast System (ROFS) model output from 2005-03 (NODC Accession 0002162) |
| Abstract: | The Regional Ocean Forecast System (ROFS) has been developed jointly by the Ocean Modeling Branch of the National Weather Service's Environmental Modeling Center, the National Ocean Service's Coast Survey Development Lab, Princeton University, and Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO). ROFS is based on a hydrodynamic, three-dimensional ocean circulation model (Princeton Ocean Model) which simulates temperature, salinity, surface elevation, and currents for a region off the U.S. East Coast from ~30 to 47N and out to 50W. The model is driven at the ocean surface boundary by heat, moisture, and momentum fluxes provided by NCEP's Eta mesoscale atmospheric forecast model. The ocean model is driven along its open (that is, southern and eastern) boundaries by climatological estimates of temperature, salinity, and transport. The spatial resolution of the model varies from approximately 20km offshore to about 10km nearshore. The coastal boundary corresponds to the location of the 10m isobath. In the vertical, an 18-layer sigma (terrain-following) coordinate system is used with at least half the layers concentrated in the upper 100m. Tidal forcing is included in the model. The forecast cycle generates regional ocean forecasts out to 48 hours. Surface forcing is obtained from the 3-hourly surface fields from NCEP's Eta mesoscale atmospheric prediction model. [This abstract was obtained from the ROFS website at http://polar.wwb.noaa.gov/cofs/Description.html#OM on June 23, 2004.] |
| Date received: | 20050401 |
| Start date: | 20050301 |
| End date: | 20050331 |
| Seanames: | Northwest Atlantic Ocean (limit-40 W) |
| West boundary: | -81 |
| East boundary: | -50 |
| North boundary: | 47 |
| South boundary: | 27 |
| Observation types: | model output |
| Instrument types: | |
| Datatypes: | CURRENT DIRECTION, CURRENT SPEED, SALINITY - SURFACE WATER, SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE |
| Submitter: | |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
| Collecting institutions: | US DOC; NOAA; NWS; National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
| Contributing projects: | COFS, ROFS |
| Platforms: | |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | The Regional Ocean Forecast System (ROFS) model was previously known as the Coastal Ocean Forecast System (COFS) model. The NODC archives historic model runs on a once-per-month basis which includes restart values on the 1st and 15th day of the month. Please contact NCEP for details about the model and its output. |
| Availability date: | |
| Metadata version: | 3 |
| Keydate: | 2005-05-02 18:09:17+00 |
| Editdate: | 2017-04-09 00:09:49+00 |