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Station:                   OS_0N165E_52321

Latitude(degree):     0

Longitude(degree):  165

Product Infomation:
in_situ: OceanSITES surface mooring observation
dwd: German DWD NWP Short-range forecast
ecmwf: ECMWF NWP short-range forecast
cfs: NCEP CFS short-range forecast
ocean_wind: RSAD/NCDC satellite-based ocean surface winds

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 Variable: Zonal Wind
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Variable: Marinal Wind
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Project Information

The Surface Fluxes Analysis (SurFA) project is initiated by the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Working Groups on Numerical Experimentation and on the Surface Fluxes (WGNE and WGSF), Observation & Assimilation Panel (WOAP), and the Ocean Observation Panel for Climate (OOPC). The SurFA objective is toevaluate the performance of operational global Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) forecast variables used in computing surface fluxes such as surface winds. To facilitate the evaluation and monitoring of weather and climate model forecast skills and satellite-based products against high quality in-situ observations, a data repository for collocated model forecasts and in-situ observations has been established at the US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC; www.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/surfa.html), one of the data centers for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s satellite and other climate data.

SPEC is a satellite product evaluation system that is developed at NCDC and designed to facilitate the integrated operational monitoring of NOAA's satellite and modeling systems and products. Currently, it has the capability of ingesting data of various types via various data servers, co-locating fields in time and space of various data formats, and providing users with the Network Common Data Format (NetCDF), and basic analysis and visualization functionality.

A near real-time product quality monitoring system prototype has been developed utilizing the existing capability and functionality of SPEC and the SurFA datasets datasets including high-quality observations to monitor the performance of NWP short-range forecast winds and satellite-derived winds by identifying potential outliers in near real-time and in an automatic fashion. This web-based interface utilizes the functionality of the geographic information system (GIS) to enhance the user experience of visualizing the output from the SPEC statistical analysis tool.

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