NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) and Sofar Ocean have partnered to build modeling systems that advance marine weather forecasting.GFDL and Sofar’s three-year cooperation, which began in late 2024, combines parallel efforts…
NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) and Sofar Ocean have partnered to build modeling systems that advance marine weather forecasting.
GFDL and Sofar’s three-year cooperation, which began in late 2024, combines parallel efforts at each organization to produce a coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean model that improves the accuracy of global marine weather forecasts and regional extreme weather scenarios.
Scientists at NOAA and Sofar are already leveraging preliminary versions of the coupled model to produce more accurate ocean weather forecasts and improve safety at sea for coastal communities, maritime shipping and other blue economy businesses.
“Our collaboration with Sofar explores the benefits of shared technologies and ideas in modeling the coupled Earth system,” said Lucas Harris, leader of GFDL’s Weather and Climate Dynamics Division. “By combining GFDL model components with observations from Sofar’s global Spotter network, we can build a model to produce highly accurate global marine forecasts.”
Sofar Ocean's Spotter Platform is a modular, rapidly deployable marine sensing system that delivers real-time surface and subsurface ocean data. GFDL and Sofar use the millions of real-time and historical observations made by Sofar's global network of Spotters to calibrate models and initialize near real-time forecasts.
GFDL and Sofar share resources to accelerate model development. They
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