Operational Forecast System (OFS) Model for Tidal Currents

We compare NOAA’s Operational Forecast System (OFS) model forecasts with NOAA’s tidal current predictions, primarily showing a way to do this study on your own for a region of interest.

For this we used LuckGrib to download the model data in grib format and after looking at it there, we exported the grib file and loaded into qtVlm that lets us look at the forecast on a real chart (ENC) with an overlay of the official NOAA current stations. We can see that the model forecasts offer a good way to see the current flow distribution that is difficult to picture based on the station predictions alone since they are presented as strictly reversing currents.

Find OFS home page at https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/models.html
Find LuckGrib at https://www.luckgrib.com
Find qtVlm at https://www.meltemus.com
Find official NOAA predictions at https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/noaacurrents/Regions
Find our training resources at https://www.starpath.com

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#current_tables #flood_and_ebb #grib_files #tidal_currents

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