Data

The GoM-EFS model outputs for the entire Gulf of Mexico are provided in NetCDF format. The NetCDF files can be accessed from the Deep-C ftp server at ftp://deep-c.org/pub/gom-efs/nowcasts/ and ftp://deep-c.org/pub/gom-efs/forecasts/.

The naming of these files follows the scheme:
MODEL_his_DOMAIN_YYYY-MM-DD_HH:MN:SC.nc, where
  MODEL: is one of atm, ocn, wav, sed
  DOMAIN: is the computational domain string, d01, d02, ...
  YYYY: is the four digit year
  MM: is the month of the year
  DD: is the day of the month
  HH: is the hour of the day
  MN: is the minute of the hour
  SC: always 00

There are two versions of the NetCDF files for each model:

1. MODEL_his_DOMAIN* that contain the data in geographical (latitude/longitude) coordinates (earth radius = 6371001.0 m)
2. MODEL_his_geo_DOMAIN* that contain the data in geodetic (latitude/longitude) coordinates (based on the WGS84 ellipsoid, earth semi-major axis = 6378137.0 m, earth semi-minor axis = 6356752.31414 m). Complete explanation of the data can be found in the NetCDF files' metadata.