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GRIB Model

OFS Salish Sea and Columbia River Currents


Provider:Center for Operational Oceanographic Products (NOAA)
Model scope:North America West Coast
Update frequency:every 24 hours
Resolution:0.3nm, 0.6km
Model duration:57 forecasts starting at 0 hr, ending at 3 days
Parameters:current, tide
GRIB model date:Fri Dec 6 03:00:00 2024 UTC
Download date:Fri Dec 6 08:29:23 2024 UTC
Download delay:5hr 29min

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/ofs/sscofs_spatialmap.png

The Salish Sea and Columbia River OFS model is calculated using a bathymetry following irregular grid which has almost 240,000 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.

Tide data

Note that the OFS models contain tide height data. This tide data may be superior to the official forecasts, as they take into account atmospheric conditions and river runoff.

Studying the tidal heights across this region using the visual tools in LuckGrib can be an excellent way to understand how tides progress the further away from an ocean inlet an area is.

Additional information

For additional information, see:

Global Models


Large Regional


North America


Pacific


Caribbean


Europe


OpenWRF - Europe



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