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NOAA S-111 Surface Water Currents Data

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Description

S-111 is a data and metadata encoding specification that is part of the S-100 Universal Hydrographic Data Model, an international standard for hydrographic data. This collection of data contains surface water currents forecast guidance from NOAA/NOS Operational Forecast Systems, a set of operational hydrodynamic nowcast and forecast modeling systems, for various U.S. coastal waters and the great lakes. The collection also contains surface current forecast guidance output from the NCEP Global Real-Time Ocean Forecast System (GRTOFS) for some offshore areas. These datasets are encoded as HDF-5 files conforming to the S-111 specification, and are geospatially subset into individual tiles conforming to the NOAA/OCS Nautical Product Tiling Scheme, with filenames indicating the corresponding NOAA Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) Cell Identifier. A full set of S-111 tiles is created for each new model run cycle, which occurs four times per day for all models except for RTOFS, which updates only once per day. Files are organized using a path naming convention that includes the OFS identifier (e.g. 'cbofs' corresponding with output from the Chesapeake Bay Operational Forecast System) as well as the year, month, day, and hour corresponding with each model run initialization time. Each individual S-111 (HDF-5) file contains all forecast projections from a single model run for that geographic area. In other words, a single S-111 file will contain multiple gridded arrays each containing a forecast valid at a distinct time in the future, out to the forecast horizon of the underlying modeling system. All surface currents forecasts in this collection are computed at a depth of 4.5 meters below water surface, or half the water column depth, whichever is shallower.

Update Frequency

Four times per day for each OFS, except Global RTOFS which updates once per day

License

Open Data. There are no restrictions on the use of this data.

Documentation

https://noaa-s111-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/README.html

Managed By

See all datasets managed by NOAA.

Contact

For general questions or feedback about the data, please submit inquiries through the NOAA Office of Coast Survey (OCS) ASSIST Tool at https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/customer-service/assist/."
For any questions regarding data delivery or any general questions regarding the NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Program, email the NODD Team at nodd@noaa.gov.
We also seek to identify case studies on how NOAA data is being used and will be featuring those stories in joint publications and in upcoming events. If you are interested in seeing your story highlighted, please share it with the NODD team by emailing nodd@noaa.gov

How to Cite

NOAA S-111 Surface Water Currents Data was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-s111.

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Resources on AWS

  • Description
    NOAA S-111 Surface Water Currents Datasets
    Resource type
    S3 Bucket
    Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
    arn:aws:s3:::noaa-s111-pds
    AWS Region
    us-east-1
    AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
    aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://noaa-s111-pds/
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    Browse Bucket
  • Description
    NOAA S-111 Surface Water Currents New Dataset Notification
    Resource type
    SNS Topic
    Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
    arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123901341784:NewS111Object
    AWS Region
    us-east-1

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