A Nowcast/Forecast System for Coastal Ocean Circulation Using Simple Nudging Data Assimilation

摘要

This study describes the establishment of a Nowcast/Forecast System for Coastal Ocean Circulation (NFS COC), which was run operationally on a daily basis to provide users ocean surface currents and sea levels that Vary with synoptic winds, and seasonal and mesoscale variability intrinsic to the Florida Current. Based on the Requirements of users, information about possible oil spills, trajectories, etc., is also provided by NFS-COC. NFS-COC consists of two parts: POM is automatically run to forecast ocean variables for up to 2 days under (POM), and a 2D trajectory model.