NOAA NCEP Real Time Ocean Forecast System - Atlantic

RTOFS-Atlantic is an operational data-assimilating ocean analysis and forecasting system run daily by NOAA Weather Service. The table below provides access to RTOFS data and supporting information. OPeNDAP or http access is provided for recent (< 30 days old) files. Files may be downloaded either in the original GRiB2 format or as netCDF. Two sets of RTOFS products are provided: 3D files that contain daily 3-dimensional fields reported for a series of depths measured in meters below mean sea level; and hourly fields reported for the surface level only. Both file types use the native RTOFS curvilinear computational grid in the horizontal. Access is also provided for older (>30 days) files, available as GRiB2 downloads from the National Oceanographic Data Center. More information on RTOFS and its output is contained in the metadata and on the NCEP website at http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/ofs/index.shtml

The NODC archive of RTOFS stored as grib2 can be found at: http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/ncep/rtofs/

Near-Real-Time (past 30 days)

Product	Domain	Update Frequency/ Time	Nowcast/ Forecast coverage (hours)	Output Timestep (hours)	Storage Format	Data Access	graphic
RTOFS Atlantic-3D Metadata	Gulf of Mexico, Carribean Western North Atlantic	Daily/00Z	-24 to +120	24	GRiB2, NetCDF	http of grib2 http of NetCDF OPeNDAP (THREDDS) THREDDS catalog Visualize
RTOFS Atlantic- Surface Metadata	Gulf of Mexico, Carribean Western North Atlantic	Daily/00Z	-24 to +120	1	GRiB2, NetCDF	http of grib2 http of NetCDF OPeNDAP (THREDDS) THREDDS catalog Visualize