NOAA Global Surge and Tide Operational Forecast System 2-D (STOFS-2D-Global)
Provided by: NOAA , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
Provided by: NOAA , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
NOAA Global Surge and Tide Operational Forecast System 2-D (STOFS-2D-Global)
Provided by: NOAA , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
Provided by: NOAA , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative
This product is part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative and contains data sets that are publicly available for anyone to access and use. No subscription is required. Unless specifically stated in the applicable data set documentation, data sets available through the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative are not provided and maintained by AWS.
Description
NOTICE - The Coast Survey Development Laboratory (CSDL) in NOAA/National Ocean Service (NOS)/Office of Coast Survey has upgraded the Surge and Tide Operational Forecast System (STOFS, formerly ESTOFS) to Version 2.1. A Service Change Notice (SCN) has been issued and can be found "HERE "
NOAA's Global Surge and Tide Operational Forecast System 2-D (STOFS-2D-Global) provides users with nowcasts (analyses of near present conditions) and forecast guidance of water level conditions for the entire globe. STOFS-2D-Global has been developed to serve the marine navigation, weather forecasting, and disaster mitigation user communities. STOFS-2D-Global was developed in a collaborative effort between the NOAA/National Ocean Service (NOS)/Office of Coast Survey, the NOAA/National Weather Service (NWS)/National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Central Operations (NCO), the University of Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina, and The Water Institute of the Gulf. The model generates forecasts out to 180 hours four times per day; forecast output includes water levels caused by the combined effects of storm surge and tides, by astronomical tides alone, and by sub-tidal water levels (isolated storm surge).
The hydrodynamic model employed by STOFS-2D-Global is the ADvanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC) finite element model. The model is forced by GFS winds, mean sea level pressure, and sea ice. The unstructured grid used by STOFS-2D-Global consists of 12,785,004 nodes and 24,875,336 triangular elements. Coastal resolution is at least 1.5 km globally, and up to 80 m for the U.S. West Coast and Alaska, up to 90-120 m for the Pacific Islands including Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Marianas, Wake Island, Marshall Islands, and Palau, and up to 120 m for the U.S. East Coast and Puerto Rico. The flood plain extends overland to approximately 10 m elevation above MSL for the U.S. East Coast, and up to 20 m elevation above MSL for the Pacific Islands. STOFS-2D-Global water level forecast guidance is referenced to global MSL (GMSL) for gridded output and local MSL (LMSL) for station output (SHEF files are referenced to MLLW).
STOFS-2D-Global water level forecast guidance output available here include NetCDF, GRIB2, and SHEF files. Please see README documentation for more details.
License
NOAA data disseminated through NODD is made available under the [Creative Commons 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0-1.0) license](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/?ref=chooser-v1\ ), which is well-known and internationally recognized. There are no restrictions on the use of the data. The data are open to the public and can be used as desired. NOAA has adopted the Creative Commons license to ensure maximum use of our data, to spur and encourage exploration and innovation throughout the industry. This license is applicable to each of the NOAA datasets made available by NODD. NOAA requests attribution for the use or dissemination of unaltered NOAA data. However, it is not permissible to state or imply endorsement by or affiliation with NOAA. If you modify NOAA data, you may not state or imply that it is original, unaltered NOAA data.
How to cite
NOAA Global Surge and Tide Operational Forecast System 2-D (STOFS-2D-Global) was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-gestofs .
Update frequency
Four times per day, every 6 hours starting at midnight UTC
Support information
Managed by: NOAA
Contact: For questions regarding data content or quality, visit the ESTOFS site (https://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/estofs/ ). For any questions regarding data delivery or any general questions regarding the NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Program, email the NODD Team at 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 NODD team by emailing nodd@noaa.gov
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Resources on AWS
Description
NOAA STOFS-2D-Global Water Level Forecast Guidance
Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::noaa-gestofs-pdsAWS Region
us-east-1AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://noaa-gestofs-pds/Explore
Description
NOAA STOFS-2D-Global Water Level Forecast Guidance New Dataset Notification
Resource type
SNS Topic
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123901341784:NewGESTOFSObjectAWS Region
us-east-1