An integrated Ocean Circulation, Wave, Atmosphere and Marine Ecosystem Prediction System for the South Atlantic Bight and Gulf of Mexico

An integrated Ocean Circulation, Wave, Atmosphere and Marine Ecosystem Prediction System for the South Atlantic Bight and Gulf of Mexico

Ruoying He*, Gorge Xue and Joseph Zambon

Department of Marine, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
North Carolina State University

*corresponding author: rhe@ncsu.edu

A 3-dimensioanl marine environmental nowcast/forecast system has been constructed and is running quasi-operationally for the South Atlantic Bight and Gulf of Mexico. The system is based on the Coupled Ocean (ROMS)-Atmosphere (WRF)-Wave-(SWAN)-Sediment Transport (COAWST) model, and is driven by realistic meteorological forcing, tides, river, and deep ocean boundary conditions provided by a data assimilative global ocean model. Model output from this nowcast/forecast system, including marine weather, ocean wave, ocean circulation and marine ecosystem variable are generated daily and available for public access at http://omgsrv1.meas.ncsu.edu:8080/ocean-circulation/. The construction of this prediction system, model validations and examples of case studies will be given in this presentation.