The following figures show the surface and subsurface drifter trajectories starting from drifter deployment release times and locations on 16 Aug in the domain. They are compared against the data for the purpose of Lagrangian skill evaluation. These trajectory computations are till pickup times on 18 Aug for the forecast issued on 16 August 2018 (8 EDT).
As a reminder, 12:00Z = 08:00 EDT, i.e., local time is 4 hours behind Zulu time.
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