Balearic Sea – December 2021
P.F.J. Lermusiaux, P.J. Haley, C. Mirabito, M. Doshi, W.H. Ali, A. Gupta Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Ocean Engineering Mechanical Engineering Cambridge, Massachusetts
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MSEAS Deterministic Ocean Forecasts MSEAS Probabilistic Ocean Forecasts MSEAS Methods & Systems Atmos. Forecasts Results From Partners Data sources |
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This is the main page for sharing test output for the Balearic Sea. These are not real-time products.
This research is sponsored by the Office of Naval Research
MSEAS Forecasts
- MSEAS Deterministic Ocean Forecasts
- Methods and Systems: The probabilistic MIT-MSEAS Primitive-Equation (PE) ocean modeling system is utilized in real-time to provide ocean forecasts for Lagrangian transport and analyses in the region. The modeling system was set-up in an implicit 2-way nesting configuration (2/300° resolution Balearic Sea domain and 2/900° resolution process domains). The ocean forecasts are initialized from either HYCOM or WMOP or CMEMS, downscaled to higher resolution and updated with ocean data from varied open sources of opportunity (CTDs, ARGO floats, gliders, SST [AVHRR-METOP satellite data from OSI SAF], etc.). Ensemble forecasts are initialized using ESSE procedures. These ocean simulations are forced by atmospheric flux fields forecast by the Global Forecast System (GFS) 0.25° model from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and by tidal forcing from TPXO8, but adapted to the high-resolution bathymetry and coastlines.
- MSEAS-processed atmospheric forcing flux forecasts:
- Results from our CALYPSO partners:
- Acknowledgements: We thank our CALYPSO colleagues for their inputs and collaboration. We especially thank Baptiste Mourre and the SOCIB team for the WMOP model fields and data. We also thank Uwe Send for his mooring data, and Tamay Özgökmen and Pierre Poulain for their drifter data. We also thank Emanuela Clementi, the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), and Nadia Pinardi for the CMEMS data in the Mediterranean. We also wish to thank Matthew Pyle, Eric Rogers, Geoff DiMego, and Arun Chawla of NCEP for help and support for atmospheric forcing data.
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Data sources
- Copernicus Mediterranean Sea Physics Analysis and Forecast System - Evaluation and Data Assimilation (CMCC)
- Ocean synoptic
- The Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP)
- SST Images/Data
- HF Radar:
- PERSEUS project cast database
- Copernicus data page
- EMODnet
- CMEMS Products for the Mediterranean Sea:
- Coriolis Operational Oceanography data selection page
- Ocean historical/climatological
- The Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP)
- Data sets and products NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
- World Ocean Database (WOD)
- Data/Atmospheric forcing
- Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model Real-Time Forecasts
- National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) products:
- Global Forecast System Model: version 4 (GFS), at 0.5 degree resolution (GFSp5) and also at 0.25 degree resolution (GFSp25)
- The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ERA Intrim (global Re-Analysis)
- Coupled Ocean / Data/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS)
- Navy Global Environmental Model (NAVGEM) products:
- Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET) products:
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