Wei Wu, Edward Myers, Changsheng Chen, Siqi Li, Jianhua Qi, Qichun Xu, Jiangtao Xu, Aijun Zhang, Gregory Seroka, Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome
The NOAA Unified Forecast System (UFS) Coastal Applications Team (CAT) project aims at evaluating coastal ocean models in New York Harbor and its surrounding areas, training next-generation coastal ocean modelers, and providing useful information for navigation teams and the NOAA UFS.
The Northeast Coastal Ocean Forecast System (NECOFS), developed and upgraded by the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth coastal ocean modelers, has been used to provide short-term coastal ocean forecasts and support various coastal applications.
We leveraged the ongoing NOAA NOS effort of developing and transitioning the NECOFS-Based coastal ocean operational forecast system (OFS) to operations to support the UFS CAT project. A model mesh centered at New York Harbor was developed based on the NECOFS-Based OFS mesh and used to support the UFS CAT project workgroup. The latest available FVCOM source code versions were used in the tidal and hindcast simulations and evaluations. The latest NECOFS tidal simulation’s results (harmonic constituents) were used to generate additional tidal forcing for the UFS CAT project workgroup to conduct the comparison and evaluation of tidal simulations with different sources of tidal forcing (TPXO, FES2014, and NECOFS). Hindcast simulations and evaluations were made by one-way coupling with an atmospheric model and a wave model. NOAA NOS Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) observations were used in the tidal and hindcast evaluations. In brief, leveraging the on-going NOAA NECOFS-Based OFS development has proven to be effective and critical in supporting the development and in maximizing the achievements of the UFS CAT project.
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