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Map Layer: Sea Surface Temperatures from the Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM) American
Seas (AMSEAS)
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The The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) operational ocean prediction system
for the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean is based on the NRL-developed Navy Coastal Ocean
Model (NCOM). The NetCDF files contain ocean temperature, salinity, eastward and northward
currents, and elevation, along with the atmospheric forcing fields provided over this
domain by a 15 km application of the Navy's COAMPS model. The AMSEAS ocean prediction
system assimilates all quality controlled observations in the region including satellite
sea surface temperature and altimetry, as well as surface and profile temperature
and salinity data using the NRL-developed Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation (NCODA)
system. Boundary conditions are applied from the NAVOCEANO operational 1/8 degree
global NCOM.
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