NECOFS is being developed by a UMassD-WHOI research team led by Drs. C. Chen, R. C. Beardsley, G. Cowles and B. Rothschild as one component of the Northeast Regional Coastal Ocean Observation System (NERCOOS) and Massachusets Fishery Institution. The major components of this forecast system include: 1) the modified fifth-generation community mesoscale atmospheric model MM5; 2) the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model; 3) the unstructured grid Finite-Volume Coastal Ocean circulation Model (FVCOM-GOM); 4) the unstructured grid surface wave model (FVCOM-SWAVE) modified from SWAN; and 5) a 3-D suspended sediment transport model. In both forecast and hindcast operations, MM5/WRF produces the surface meteorological forcing fields to drive the coupled FVCOM-GOM and FVCOM-SWAVE. FVCOM-GOM uses both nudging, optimal interopolation and advanced Kalman filters to assimilate SST, satellite-derived insolation, and in-situ oceanographic data (moored and shipboard hydrographic and current data). Predicted river discharge data and hydrographic profiles at open boundaries are specified for the forecast operation, with updating daily when the real measurements are downloaded.
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