A Real Time Ocean Forecast System for the North Atlantic Ocean

• Main Author: Avichal Mehra Ilya Rivin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2010
• Subjects: Ocean modeling; Operational oceanography; Hybrid models; Geology; QE1-996.5; Geophysics. Cosmic physics; QC801-809; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/f170bb3ae2d04e648df7b0a0bed2bf62

The Real Time Ocean Forecast System (RTOFS) for the North Atlantic is an ocean forecast system based on the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). HYCOM is the result of a collaborative effort between the University of Miami, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), as part of a 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. This paper describes the RTOFS-Atlantic, an operational real time ocean nowcast/forecast system for the North Atlantic running daily at National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).