OFES[1] and the Earth Simulator enable us to perform decadal integrations of eddy resolving ocean simulations in the world ocean. The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) promotes OFES research project and collaborates with several research groups. This site provides access service of the outputs from OFES quasi-global eddy-resolving simulation at a horizontal simulation of 0.1 degree. The OFES outputs may be used for research purposes for free under the terms and conditions.
OFES ver. 2 was conducted to overcome several issues with unrealistic properties in OFES ver. 1. Sea-ice model and tidal mixing scheme were implemented and JRA55-do atmospheric dataset (Tsujino et al. 2018) was used to force OFES ver. 2. The hindcast simulation has been integrated from 1958 (see details in Sasaki et al., 2020). The period of simulation is extended to the present year.
- ^ OFES: Based on the Modular Ocean Model ver.3 (MOM3), developed by GFDL/NOAA, we have developed an OGCM code (OFES: OGCM for the Earth Simulator) optimized for massively-parallel computations on the Earth Simulator.
Data DOI of OFES data
How to Access
The outputs from OFES ver. 2 are distributed through GrADS Data Server. Use DODS-enabled applications, such as GrADS or NCL for visualization and NCO (ncks) to slice and download data. Meta data[2] is displayed when accessed with a web browser.
- ^ Using DODS applications, the vertical direction of 3D variable is upside-down with the false unit of “mbar” (z = 105 for the surface data).
Available Data
- Hindcast simulation from 1958 to 2016 (Monthly mean). Regarding the use of the daily mean data and the latest data , please contact to JAMSTEC.
References
- , 2020: A global eddying hindcast ocean simulation with OFES2. Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 13, 3319–3336.
Contact and Feedback
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