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NOAA's [Coastal Ocean Reanalysis (CORA)](https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/cora.html) for the Gulf, East Coast/Atlantic, and Caribbean (GEC) is produced using verified hourly water levels from the National Ocean Service’s [Center of Operational Oceanographic Products & Services](https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/) (CO-OPS). [ADvanced CIRCulation Model (ADCIRC)](https://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Media/Fact-Sheets/Fact-Sheet-Article-View/Article/476698/advanced-circulation-model/) and [Simulating WAves Nearshore (SWAN)](https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ceg/about-faculty/departments/hydraulic-engineering/sections/environmental-fluid-mechanics/research/swan) models are coupled to model coastal water levels and nearshore waves. Hourly water level observations are used for data assimilation and validation to improve the accuracy of modeled water levels and wave datasets.
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<b>Additional Details:</b><br>
Metadata associated with model domain and time span:
- Timeseries - 1979 to 2022
- Si[...]
Overview
NOAA's Coastal Ocean Reanalysis (CORA) for the Gulf, East Coast/Atlantic, and Caribbean (GEC) is produced using verified hourly water levels from the National Ocean Service’s Center of Operational Oceanographic Products & Services (CO-OPS). ADvanced CIRCulation Model (ADCIRC) and Simulating WAves Nearshore (SWAN) models are coupled to model coastal water levels and nearshore waves. Hourly water level observations are used for data assimilation and validation to improve the accuracy of modeled water levels and wave datasets.
Additional Details:
Metadata associated with model domain and time span:
- Timeseries - 1979 to 2022
- Size - Approx. 44.6 TB
- Domain - Lat 5.8 to 45.8 ; Long -98.0 to -53.8
- Nodes - CORA Metadata Library
- Grid cells - CORA Metadata Library
- Spatial Resolution:
- Centroids: 300-400 meters
- Gridded: 500 meters
- Projection: 1983 Contiguous USA Albers projection (EPSG:5070)
Datasets:
Water level and wave datasets resulting from the computation, assimilation, validation, and optimization reanalysis datasets. All products are available in NetCDF (.nc) format:
- fort.63.nc - Water level elevation
- fort.73.nc - Atmospheric pressure at sea level
- fort.74.nc - Wind Velocity - 10 m elevation
- maxele.63.nc - Maximum water elevation
- swan_DIR.63.nc - Spectral mean wave direction
- swan_TMM10.63.nc - Spectral mean wave period
- swan_TPS.63.nc - Spectral peak wave period
- swan_HS.63.nc - Spectral zeroth moment wave height
- swan_HS_max.63.nc - Maximum spectral zeroth moment wave height
Derived Products:
Datasets resulting from the computation, modeling, or other processing using existing/collected data. All products are available in NetCDF (.nc) format:
- CORA-V1.1-fort.63: Hourly water levels
- CORA-V1.1-swan_DIR.63: Hourly mean wave direction
- CORA-V1.1-swan_TPS.63: Hourly peak wave periods
- CORA-V1.1-swan_HS.63: Hourly significant wave heights
- CORA-V1.1-Grid: Hourly water levels interpolated from model nodes to uniform 500-meter resolution grid
Features and programs
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- How to use
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- Description
- NOAA’s Coastal Ocean Reanalysis (CORA) Dataset NetCDF
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::noaa-nos-cora-pds
- AWS region
- us-east-1
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://noaa-nos-cora-pds/
- Description
- NOAA’s Coastal Ocean Reanalysis (CORA) Dataset Notifications
- Resource type
- SNS topic
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:709902155096:NewNOSCORAObject
- AWS region
- us-east-1
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Contact
For questions regarding data content or quality, email CO-OPS.UserServices@noaa.gov This data is made available to the public through the NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Program. For questions regarding this program, email nodd@noaa.gov . We also seek to identify case studies on how NOAA data is being used and will be featuring those stories in joint publications and in upcoming events. If you are interested in seeing your story highlighted, please share it with the NOAA NODD team at nodd@noaa.gov .
How to cite
NOAA's Coastal Ocean Reanalysis (CORA) Dataset: 1979-2022 was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nos-cora .
License
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