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The Lake Ontario Operational Forecast System (LOOFS) was jointly developed by NOAA/National Ocean Service's (NOS) Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) and Office of Coast Survey (OCS), the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), the NOAA/National Weather Service's (NWS) National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) National Central Operations (NCO), and the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
The new LOOFS uses the Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM), coupled with an unstructured grid version of the Los Alamos Sea Ice model (CICE), to provide users with higher resolution of nowcast (analyses of near present) and forecast guidance of water levels, currents, water temperature, ice concentration, ice thickness and ice velocity out to 120 hours, four times per day. By invoking advanced model schemes and algorithms, LOOFS is expected to generate a more accurate model output than the former LOOFS, whose model core was the Princeton Ocean Model (POM).
The NWS and NOS work together to run LOOFS operationally on NOAA's High Performance Computing System (HPCS). By running on NOAA's HPCS, LOOFS has direct access to National Weather Service operational meteorological products that are required for reliable operations.
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