Alternate title

Global RTOFS

Date

Identifier

Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) | Eastward current velocity in the water body | National Centers for Enviromental Prediction | Global RTOFS

Other citation details

Global RTOFS

Purpose

Ocean Forecasting model

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Unknown

Used by challenges

• Atlantic - CH03 - Oil Platform Leaks

Environmental matrix

• Marine water

Production mode

• Real-time

Visibility

• Search via reference catalogue (e.g. MyOcean, GEOSS Geoportal…)

Policy visibility

• There is detailed information provided to understand data policy

Readyness

• Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Oceanographic geographical features

Processing level of characteristics

• Forecast/Hindcast

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online discovery + downloading + viewing services (Advanced services)

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)

• Eastward current velocity in the water body

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Currents

Service extent

• The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service

Validation

• Submitted

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

Current Forecast data will be used as input to the oil spill drift model

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

1  day

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• NetCDF ()

OnLine resource

Inventory of the Data Products of the NOAA servers ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

Global RTOFS ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/global/about/

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

Description

0, -10, -20, -30, -50, -75, -100, -125, -150, -200, -250, -300, -400, -500, -600, -700, -800, -900, -1000, -1100, -1200, -1300, -1400, -1500, -1750, -2000, -2500, -3000, -3500, -4000, -4500, -5000, -5500

File identifier

a5eddbb6-87df-4870-9d35-2b15528bf091 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

Atlantic - CH03 - Oil Platform Leaks

Date stamp

2016-12-14T13:07:51Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0