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UFS COASTAL PDS·dataset

Coastal forecasting model under development (NOAA)

NOAA Unified Forecast System (UFS) Coastal Model
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In plain English

What it measures. This contains the model code and components for an in-development coastal forecasting system, not a finished forecast dataset.

How it's made. NOAA and NCAR are building it on the Unified Forecast System, linking together several coastal ocean models such as SCHISM, ADCIRC, ROMS, and FVCOM.

How & where you'd use it. It is a developer resource for building and testing future coastal forecasts; ordinary users will benefit later through the forecasts it eventually produces.

What's measured

aws-pdsclimateelevationdisaster responsegeospatiallidarstac

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span— → ongoing

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

The Unified Forecast System (UFS) is a community-based, coupled, comprehensive Earth Modeling System. The UFS Coastal application is a project under development by NOAA and NCAR, which supports coastal forecasting requirements based on UFS standards. The coupling infrastructure for UFS Coastal App is currently being developed based on a fork of the ufs-weather-model (UFS-WM), with additional coastal model-components including SCHISM, ADCIRC, ROMS, and FVCOM, as well as additional infrastructure to support coastal coupling of WW3 and CICE. The model-level repository contains the model code and external submodules needed to build the UFS coastal model executable and the associated model components. The UFS Coastal Regression Test (RT) system is a type of testing built into the software development that ensures that changes to the model-level code and associated model-components do not break the existing functionality of the code. The number and type of tests currently in the RT system suite are evolving along with current dependencies such as UFS-WM and ESMF libraries. Currently, at least one RT case exists for each coastal model. The status and descriptions of the existing RT cases is available via the UFS Coastal Wiki page. These are currently regularly tested on NOAA/MSU Hercules platform, and to a lesser frequency on TACC/Frontera. Each of the regression tests require a set of input data files and configuration files. The configuration files include namelist and model configuration files which can be found within the UFS-Coastal model code repository. The RT framework als

Get the data

noaa_access.py
# NOAA Open Data on AWS — public S3, no login
import s3fs

fs = s3fs.S3FileSystem(anon=True)
# find this dataset's bucket in the docs link in the sidebar, then:
# files = fs.ls("noaa-<bucket>/...")
# open NetCDF/GRIB with xarray, COGs with rioxarray
NOAA Open Data is on public AWS S3 — no login at all (anonymous access).