ApocaDocs: Graph of the Day: Projected Gulf Loop Current, Today + 144 Hours

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Posted Tue May 4 2010: from NOAA, via DesdemonaDespair:


	Graph of the Day: Projected Gulf Loop Current, Today + 144 Hours http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1272974745 This is a map of the magnitude of the horizontal velocity of the seawater at the indicated depth. Units are meters per second. RTOFS (Atlantic) is a basin-scale ocean forecast system based on the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). RTOFS (Atlantic) is described in the following paper (PDF): "A Real Time Ocean Forecast System for the North Atlantic Ocean" by Mehra and Riven, Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., Vol. 21, No. 1, 211-228, February 2010 The model is run once a day, completing at about 1400Z. Each run starts with a 24 hour assimiliation hindcast and produces ocean surface forecasts every hour and full volume forecasts every 24 hours from the 0000Z nowcast out to 120 hours.

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'Doc Michael says:

Is there any way to "hindcast" the Gulf oil back into its bottle?