Data
Disclaimers
- Purpose: The
data available and provided by USGODAE is for informational purposes
only. The information provided is not meant to replace official
environmental information and is provided only as an additional source
of information.
- Timeliness: The
data provided is subject to delay. These delays may be both announced
and unexpected.
- Accuracy: All
data provided to USGODAE is from external sources. USGODAE only hosts
the data provided. All best attempts are made by USGODAE to maintain
data integrity during transfer, and provide alerts for data that
appears inconsistent with previous experience.
- Missing Data:
USGODAE does not generate the data, and only hosts the data that has
been successfully made available to the the site. USGODAE has no
authority to mandate recovery of missing data. The USGODAE community
may make requests to data providers to recover missing data, and be
willing to provide some guidance to the user community on how to
request data.
- Data Requests:
To request new data or to notify of possible data errors please submit
request via the Contacts form.
- US Navy website Disclaimer
Data Naming
- FNMOC File
Naming Conventions
- FNMOC CAGIPS GODAE Subscription
PDF
ASCII
- NOGAPS CHANGES effective January 2009
- ice_cvrg changed from GMET to GOCN
- grnd_wet changed from GMET to GLND
- terr_ht changed from GMET to GLND
- grnd_sea_temp from GMET to GCOM
- All others are still GMET
Data Formats
NOTICE: The
information in the GRIB headers for the *GMET* files in the ww3_dps
directory for ID 240 was
incorrect. The correct information is in the
GRIB GDS for *GOCN* ID 240 for files in the
ww3 and ww3_dps directories.
Since the data are duplicates, we stopped
populating the ww3_dps
directory.
Wave heights for land points is due to the
land averaging routine which
is run during the engribbing
process. The inland wave heights are
obviously false, but the waves in enclosed
basins where the global model
does not run, such as the Med., are
erroneous and potentially dangerous.
Unfortunately, FNMOC does not use the Bit
Map Section of GDS to mask
model domains. We recently
started providing FNMOC Med. WW3 grids at
http://usgodae.org/ftp/outgoing/fnmoc/models/ww3_regional/med/.
Data
Navigation
- HTTP
Directories with a large number of files will have an index.asc file to
allow for a quick look at the contents of the directory. The file can
be parsed to allow for easy access of the data by automated scripts.
- FTP
Directories with a large number of files will have an index.asc file to
allow for a quick look at the contents of the directory. The file can
be parsed to allow for easy access of the data by automated scripts.
- OPeNDAP
- Live Access Server
- Batch Script Access to LAS Data
Frequently Asked Questions
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