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RTOFS (Atlantic) Development
RTOFS (Atlantic) is the first of a series of ocean forecast systems based on
HYCOM. Part of the development of this system was done under a
multi-national HYCOM Consortium funded by NOPP. HYCOM is the result of
collaborative efforts among the University of Miami, the Naval Research
Laboratory (NRL), and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), as part of
the multi-institutional
HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling funded by the
National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP)
to develop and evaluate a data-assimilative
hybrid isopycnal-sigma-pressure (generalized) coordinate ocean model.
Goals
- Establish operational high resolution (eddy resolving)
ocean forecast system for short-term forecasts (approximately 1-week) of
the Atlantic ocean with US deep and coastal waters well resolved.
- Nowcasts and forecasts of sea levels, currents, temperatures,
and salinity. Emphasis on the coastal ocean, the Loop Current and
the Gulf Stream regions.
- Provide seamless boundary and initial conditions to
regional ocean physical and biogeochemical models.
- Coupled circulation-wave ocean models with one-way and
two-way interactions.
- Coupled atmosphere-ocean hurricane forecast
Evaluation
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