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Met Office Shelf Seas MRCS model

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Product description(2007-04-23)
WHAT ?PRODUCT-ID

UKMET-NWESHELF-MRCS-FOR
PRODUCT TYPE

Ocean forecast

OUTPUT TYPE

Gridded (analysis)
OVERVIEW

General description : The UK Met Office has been running operational ocean models since 1997. There is global coverage at low resolution (1°) with suites of nested models giving high...
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PARAMETERS GROUP
(from BODC)
PARAMETERS (parameter, unit, convention)
  • eastward_sea_water_velocity,m s-1,CF
  • northward_sea_water_velocity,m s-1,CF
  • sea_water_salinity,1e-3,CF
  • sea_water_temperature,K,CF
WHERE ?GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE
62.0
-11.012.0
48.0
GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE

Regional scale
SPATIAL RESOLUTION

6 km
VERTICAL COVERAGE

from 0 to -4000 meters.
WHEN ?TEMPORAL COVERAGESince 2005-09-01 - onGoingTEMPORAL RESOLUTION
PROCESS/ UPDATEUPDATEDdaily
BY (supply center)
name : NCOF
email adress : enquiries@ncof.gov.uk
web site : http://www.ncof.gov.uk/

Delivery

ServiceResourceAverage Volume/releaseFormatLicence/
conditions		Distributor
http
N/AHTTP/imagefree
name : MET OFFICE
web site : http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/
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http
5MB for a single field for a single dayHTTP/netCDFfree
name : MERSEA/MIM
web site : http://www.mersea.eu.org/Information/MerseaInformationSystem.html
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http
5MB for a single field for a single dayDAPfree
name : NERC/ESSC
web site : http://www.nerc-essc.ac.uk/
full...[more]

Documentation

TitleOnline ResourcePublication
Shelf-seas model overviewhttp://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/ncof/shelf/index.html



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