OFS San Francisco Bay Currents
| Provider: | Center for Operational Oceanographic Products (NOAA) |
| Model scope: | North America West Coast |
| Update frequency: | every 6 hours |
| Resolution: | 0.2nm, 0.3km |
| Model duration: | 49 forecasts starting at 0 hr, ending at 2 days |
| Parameters: | current, tide |
| GRIB model date: | Thu Nov 21 03:00:00 2024 UTC |
| Download date: | Thu Nov 21 05:06:18 2024 UTC |
| Download delay: | 2hr 06min |
Note: the Download delay is the amount of time required for the GRIB model to compute its forecast and then for the LuckGrib cluster to download the data and make it available. The LuckGrib delay is generally less than 10 minutes, the remainder of the delay is the model compute time.
Description
The Operational Forecast System (OFS) series of models is run by the National Ocean Service (NOS) and the National Weather Service’s (NWS), both a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/images/sfbofs_grid.pngThe San Francisco Bay OFS model is calculated using a bathymetry following irregular grid which has over 54,000 grid nodes. The results of this computation are then sampled, by OFS, into a regular latitude / longitude aligned grid. The data on this regular grid are then converted to GRIB format by LuckGrib.
Additional information
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