Environmental Research Division

Products Derived from FNMOC Operational Forcasts

ERD was established at the U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) to take advantage of the Navy's global oceanographic and meteorological databases. FNMOC produces operational forecasts of the state of the atmosphere and the ocean several times daily and maintains archives of several important parameters, such as sea level pressure and temperature. ERD derives a number of well-known environmental data and index products which are routinely distributed to researchers at many state and federal laboratories, as well as to academic and international researchers.

• Environmental Indices
  • Upwelling Index - The coastal Upwelling Index is an index of the strength of the wind forcing on the ocean which has been used in many studies of the effects of ocean variability on the reproductive and recruitment success of many fish and invertebrate species.
  • North America (15 Locations)
  • South America (11 Locations)
  • Global values available on ERD's Live Access Server
  
  
  • Derived Winds and Ocean Transports - Wind products and transports derived from Sea Level Pressure
  
  
  
  • Northern and Southern Extratropical Oscillation Indices (NOIx, SOIx) - new indices of midlatitude climate fluctuations that show interesting relationships with fluctuations in marine ecosystems and populations.
  
  
• FNMOC 500 mb Height



• FNMOC Surface Winds



• Monthly mean pressure maps