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Where do the Hycom, Mercator & RTOFS models get produced?
Where do the Hycom, Mercator & RTOFS models get produced?
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Written by Arnaud Monges
Updated over a week ago

Using Ocean Data you can view the Ocean Currents from three models - Hycom, Mercator and RTOFS data.

The Hycom Ocean Current data comes from the US Navy, and gets distributed by Florida University. The data update times can be a little unreliable because of this data flow. This model is driven by GFS atmospheric model.

The Mercator model is from the Europeans and driven by ECMWF atmospheric model.

RTOFS comes from National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA (USA) Model scope: This model provides forecasts for global ocean currents, at a high resolution 0.083°, 5.0nm, 9.3km


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