Articles | Volume 15, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-995-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-995-2022
Development and technical paper
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03 Feb 2022
Development and technical paper |  | 03 Feb 2022

Improvements in the regional South China Sea Operational Oceanography Forecasting System (SCSOFSv2)

Xueming Zhu, Ziqing Zu, Shihe Ren, Miaoyin Zhang, Yunfei Zhang, Hui Wang, and Ang Li

Data sets

NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) 6-hourly Products, January 1979 to December 2010 Suranjana Saha, Shrinivas Moorthi, Hua-Lu Pan, Xingren Wu, Jie Wang, Sudhir Nadiga, Patrick Tripp, Robert Kistler, John Woollen, David Behringer, Haixia Liu, Diane Stokes, Robert Grumbine, George Gayno, Jun Wang, Yu-Tai Hou, Hui-Ya Chuang, Hann-Ming H. Juang, Joe Sela, Mark Iredell, Russ Treadon, Daryl Kleist, Paul Van Delst, Dennis Keyser, John Derber, Michael Ek, Jesse Meng, Helin Wei, Rongqian Yang, Stephen Lord, Huug van den Dool, Arun Kumar, Wanqiu Wang, Craig Long, Muthuvel Chelliah, Yan Xue, Boyin Huang, Jae-Kyung Schemm, Wesley Ebisuzaki, Roger Lin, Pingping Xie, Mingyue Chen, Shuntai Zhou, Wayne Higgins, Cheng-Zhi Zou, Quanhua Liu, Yong Chen, Yong Han, Lidia Cucurull, Richard W. Reynolds, Glenn Rutledge, and Mitch Goldberg https://doi.org/10.5065/D69K487J

NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) 6-hourly Products Suranjana Saha, Shrinivas Moorthi, Xingren Wu, Jie Wang, Sudhir Nadiga, Patrick Tripp, David Behringer, Yu-Tai Hou, Hui-ya Chuang, Mark Iredell, Michael Ek, Jesse Meng, Rongqian Yang, Malaquias Pena Mendez, Huug van den Dool, Qin Zhang, Wanqiu Wang, Mingyue Chen, and Emily Becker https://doi.org/10.5065/D61C1TXF

NCEP_Reanalysis 2 NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSL https://www.psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis2.html

GEBCO_2014 Grid GEBCO https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/historical_data_sets/#gebco_2014

SODA3: A New Ocean Climate Reanalysis, Soda 3.3.1: https://www2.atmos.umd.edu/~ocean/index_files/soda3.3.1_mn_download.htm James A. Carton, Gennady A. Chepurin, and Ligang Chen https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0149.1

SODA3: A New Ocean Climate Reanalysis, Soda 3.3.2: https://dsrs.atmos.umd.edu/DATA/soda3.3.2/REGRIDED/ocean/ James A. Carton, Gennady A. Chepurin, and Ligang Chen https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0149.1

AVHRR Pathfinder version 5.3 level 3 collated (L3C) global 4 km sea surface temperature for 1981-Present: http://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/sea-surface-temperature-optimum-interpolation /v2.1/access/avhrr/ Korak Saha, Xuepeng Zhao, Huai-min Zhang, Kenneth S. Casey, Dexin Zhang, Sheekela Baker-Yeboah, Katherine A. Kilpatrick, Robert H. Evans, Thomas Ryan, and John M. Relph https://doi.org/10.7289/v52j68xx

The Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis (OSTIA) system: https://resources.marine.copernicus.eu/product-detail/SST_GLO_SST_L4_NRT_OBSERVATIONS_010_001/DATA-ACCESS Craig J. Donlon, Matthew Martin, John Stark, Jonah Roberts-Jones, Emma Fiedler, and Werenfrid Wimmer https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2010.10.017

SST of the in situ drifting BUOY E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information https://resources.marine.copernicus.eu/product-detail/INSITU_GLO_UV_L2_REP_OBSERVATIONS_013_044/INFORMATION

SLA global ocean along-track L3 sea surface heights reprocessed (1993-ongoing) tailored for data assimilation E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information https://resources.marine.copernicus.eu/product-detail/SEALEVEL_GLO_PHY_L3_MY_008_062/DATA-ACCESS

Model code and software

Multi-source Ocean data Online Assimilation System (2.0) X. Zhu https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5215783

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Short summary
SCSOFS has provided daily updated marine forecasting in the South China Sea for the next 5 d since 2013. Comprehensive updates have been conducted to the configurations of SCSOFS's physical model and data assimilation scheme in order to improve its forecasting skill. The three most sensitive updates are highlighted. Scientific comparison and accuracy assessment results indicate that remarkable improvements have been achieved in SCSOFSv2 with respect to the original version SCSOFSv1.