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U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC)'s Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS)
Entry ID: NOGAPS

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Summary

Abstract: The Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) data contains atmospheric and oceanographic parameters based on the 12-hour forecasts by the Hemispheric Primitive Equation Model and the Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS). The Primitive Equation Model was used prior to August 1982.

The operational NOGAPS (4.0) model executes several times each 00 UTC and 12 UTC, including a six day forecast completing 5.5 hours past the synoptic time. NOGAPS outputs nearly 25,000 grids per day.

The NOGAPS analysis is performed on the Gaussian grid of the global spectral model on the 16 standard pressure levels from 1000 to 10 hPa. The maximum number of observations per volume is 600.

NOGAPS product information and weather maps (standard 1 degree averaged resolution) are available at (under FNMOC WXMAP Global Areas NGP Model) : http://www.usgodae.org/cgi-bin/datalist.pl?generate=summary

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Description: Four times daily global forcing fields from the US Navy NOGAPS model.

Link: GET DATA
Description: Access to real-time NOGAPS weather maps and model specifications.

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Geographic Coverage

N: 90.0 S: -90.0 E: 180.0 W: -180.0

Data Resolution
Latitude Resolution: 1 Degree
Longitude Resolution: 1 Degree

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE
OCEANS

Project

DODS >Distributed Oceanographic Data System    [Information]

ESIP >Earth Science Information Partners Program    [Information]

GODAE >Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment    [Information]

OPENDAP >Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol    [Information]

Keywords

GRIDDED DATA

DAILY DATA

MODEL

NAVY

WEATHER FORECAST MODELS

WEATHER PREDICTION

GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHTS

ISOTACHS

RELATIVE VORTICITY

RELATIVE HUMIDITY

VERTICAL VELOCITY

AIR TEMPERATURE

WINDS

SEA LEVEL PRESSURE

THICKNESS

PRECIPITATION

OCEAN SURFACE WINDS

HEAT FLUX

SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX

DEW POINT

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE

WIND STRESS

PRESSURE

SOLAR RADIATION

SURFACE SNOW DEPTH

SURFACE ICE CONCENTRATION

Data Center

U.S. Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment, Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Defense [Information]
Data Center URL: http://www.usgodae.org/

Data Center Personnel

Name: USGODAE HELPDESK
Email: godae-help at nrlmry.navy.mil

Distribution

Distribution_Media: WXMAP display (FNMOC) and HTTP, FTP, DODS, Live Access Server (USGODAE)
Distribution_Format: GRIB

Personnel

SCOTT A. RITZ
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: 301-614-5126
Fax: 301-614-5268
Email: Scott.A.Ritz at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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City: Greenbelt
Province or State: Maryland
Postal Code: 20771
Country: USA

USGODAE HELPDESK
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Email: godae-help at nrlmry.navy.mil

Publications/References

"The Design and Testing of NOGAPS", Rosmond, T. Weather
and Forecasting, Vol.7, No. 2, June, 1992.

"The Navy Operational Global and Regional Atmospheric
Prediction System at the Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center",
Bayler, G. and H. Lewit. Weather and Forecasting, Vol. 7,
No. 2, June, 1992.

"North Pacific Cyclone Sea-Level Pressure Errors with NOGAPS",
Harr, P., R. Ellsberry, T. Hogan and W.Clune. Weather and
Forecasting, Vol. 7, No. 3, October, 1992.

"Sensitivity Studies of the Navy's Global Forecast Model
Parameterizations and Evaluation of Improvements to NOGAPS",
Hogan, T. and L. Brody. Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 121,
No. 8, August, 1993.

"Numerical Weather Analysis and Forecast Evaluations at Fleet
Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center", Clune, W.
Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command News, Part I,
Vol. 13, No. 8, August, 1993; Part II, Vol. 14, No. 2, February,
1994.

"Impacts of the Extra-Tropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones on
Mid-Latitude Circulation Systems (in NOGAPS)", Harr, P., R. Ellsberry,
P. Klein, T. Hogan and W. Clune. Fifteenth Conference on Weather
Analysis and Forecasting, American Meteorological Society, August,
1996.

FNOC,1986. 'Numerical Environmental Products Manual, Volume II,'
Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center, Monterey, CA.

Kesel, P. G., and F. J. Winninghoff, 1972. 'The Fleet Numerical
Weather Central Operational Primitive Equation Model,' Mon. Wea.
Rev., 100:360-373.

Rosmond, T. E., 1981. 'NOGAPS: Navy Operational Global
Atmospheric Prediction System,' Preprint, Fifth Conf. Numerical
Weather Prediction, Monterey, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74-79.

Baker, N, E. Barker, R. Daley, R. Gelaro, J. Goerss, T. Hogan,
R. Langland, R. Pauley, M. Rennick, C. Reynolds, G. Rohaly,
T. Rosmond, and S. Swadley, 1998: The Navy Operational Global
Atmospheric Prediction System: A Brief History of Past, Present,
and Future Developments.

Goerss, J.S., and P.A. Phoebus, 1992: The Navy's operational
atmospheric analysis. Wea. Forecasting, 7, 232-249.

Lorenc, A., 1981: A global three-dimensional multivariate statistical
interpolation scheme. Mon. Wea. Rev., 109, 701-721.

Rosmond, T.E., 1992: The design and testing of the Navy Operational
Global Atmospheric Prediction System. Wea. Forecasting, 7, 262-272.

Staudenmaier, M.,1997: The Navy operational global atmospheric
prediction system (NOGAPS), Western Region Technical Attachment
No. 97-09.

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2004-10-26

Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-09-30

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