An animated image of NOGAPS analysis salinity at 100m depth below sea level at 00 UTC each day from August 1, 2006, to August 31, 2006. This image was produced with NASA's Panoply program and ImageMagick.
The Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS) provides numerical guidance and products in support of a wide range of Navy oceanographic and atmospheric requirements. The forecast model component of NOGAPS is the heart of the system and represents a multiyear development effort by the scientists of the Naval Oceanographic and Atmospheric Research Laboratory's Atmospheric Directorate.
Through the NOAA National Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS), six-hourly data are available in GRIB1 format on regularly spaced latitude-longitude grids at 1-degree and one-half-degree resolutions. Vertical resolution varies from 18 to 28 pressure levels, 34 sea level depths, the surface, and other various levels. Both atmospheric and ocean model variables are available.
nogaps-<subtype>_<grid#>_yyyymmdd_hhmm_fff.grb
nogaps-PPP_GGG_YYYYMMDD_HH00_000.grb
Process (PPP) |
Grid (GGG) |
Description |
x/y Grid |
Levels |
Time |
Variables |
008 |
240 |
Upper-level atmosphere |
lon-lat 360x181 |
1,2,5hPa, ptop |
one/file |
TMP, HGT, UGRD, VGRD |
017 |
240 |
Waves and winds |
lon-lat 360x181 |
surface, other |
one/file |
various |
028 |
240 |
Current, water tmp, mixed layer depth |
lon-lat 360x181 |
various |
one/file |
UOGRD, VOGRD, MIXHT, WTMP |
041 |
240 |
Soil type, GPH anom., Br.-Vaisala freq. |
lon-lat 360x181 |
various |
one/file |
SOTYP, 5WAVA, BVF2 |
043 |
240 |
Salinity, water tmp, tmp anom. |
lon-lat 360x181 |
34 sea depths |
one/file |
SALTY, WTMP, TMPA |
058 |
240 |
Pressure-level and surface data |
lon-lat 360x181 |
18 pressure, other |
one/file |
various |
058 |
056 |
Pressure-level and surface data |
lon-lat 720x361 |
27 pressure, other |
one/file |
various |
078 |
240 |
Salinity, water tmp |
lon-lat 360x181 |
34 sea depths |
one/file |
SALTY, WTMP |
110 |
240 |
Waves and winds |
lon-lat 360x181 |
surface, other |
one/file |
various |