For Regional NCOM Data via ftp: ftp://http.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/grids/operational/NCOM/regional/
For archived NCOM Data: http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/ocean-nomads/global-ncom/
For Data via Nomads GDS server: http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/ncom
For East Coast images: http://ftp.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/grids/operational/NCOM/images/
For Global RTOFS Data via ftp: http://ftp.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/grids/operational/GLOBALHYCOM/
G-RTOFS MODEL INFORMATION
The Global Real-Time Ocean Forecast System is based on NAVO's configuration of the 1/12 deg. eddy resolving
global HYCOM model and is initialized daily with NAVO generated initial conditions using the NCODA system.
G-RTOFS is forced with NCEP's operational GFS winds.
For more details see:NOAA/NCEP/MMAB GRTOFS Web Page
REGIONAL NCOM MODEL INFORMATION
The Regional NCOM models have a resolution
of 1/36 deg. (3 km). The U.S. Navy Operational Global Ocean Model (NCOM),
developed by the Naval Research Laboratory (Barron et al, 1&2)
and maintained by the Naval Oceanographic Office, provides boundary
conditions for the regional models. The regional NCOM models found here
include the U.S. East Coast (ncom_useast), The Southern California Coast
(ncom_socal), Hawaii Coasts (ncom_relo_hawaii) and the Gulf of Mexico and
Caribaean Seas (ncom_relo_amseas).
The Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation
System (NCODA) provides the data assimilation for NCOM including SSH,
SST, and in situ observations. For more information about NCOM see:
Overview by NRL or
NRL Press Release
NCOM
Publications and Validation Test Report
References
1. Barron, C.N., A.B. Kara, H.E. Hurlburt, C.
Rowley, and L.F. Smedstad, 2004: Sea surface height predictions
from the Global Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM) during 1998-2001.
J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 21(12), 1876-1894.
2. Barron, C.N., A.B. Kara, P.J. Martin, R.C.
Rhodes, and L.F. Smedstad, 2006: Formulation, implementation and
examination of vertical coordinate choices in the global Navy
Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM). Ocean Modeling, 11,
347-375, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2005.01.004.
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