Puget Sound POM

Notes on the Puget Sound POM model run at APL-UW.

Please feel free to browse the contents of the server for POM data.

Our POM files use the naming convention pom-YYYY-MM-DD.cdf.bz2. You may use this to quickly retrieve information on a data set.

Example

To view the netCDF header information on the pom output file from the 1st of October, 2007 you can enter this line in a browser:

http://metoc1.apl.washington.edu/cgi-bin/nph-dods.cgi/POM/pom-2010-10-01.cdf.bz2.info

We store the POM output locally in a compressed format. It may take some time (a minute or two) for the machine to uncompress the file and display the desired output. Once the file has been uncompressed it is cached, so subsequent viewing/data retrievals should not take as long. Please visit http://www.opendap.org for details on how to use/retrieve data from an OPeNDAP server.

If you have any trouble accessing the POM data, please feel free to contact Nicholas Lederer at lederer [at] apl.washington.edu

There has been a recent effort to establish verification of the model with observations taken in Puget Sound. Some rudimentary visualizations of this can be found here. Data for these plots is taken from http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/.

PSPOM KML Generator

 I am pleased to announce our new KML generator is online with a rather slick interface for picking which dates to put into the KML file. Click here to go to the generator. At the moment you can select dates and times to have a KML file generated that will display in Google Earth the sea surface height that the PSPOM model calculated at half hour intervals.

If, on the other had, you would like to see just the most recent model output this will generate the desired KML file. This file must be regenerated each day. New output should come online every morning, around 04:30 PST/ 12:30 UTC

MoSSea: Modeling the Salish Sea

MoSSea is operated by Parker MacCready and Dave Sutherland in the Oceanography Department at the University of Washington. We are developing a visualization system for the model written in Python called ROMPY. Source code with example images and movies made with ROMPY can be found here.

You can find out more about the MoSSea at their website.

Advanced Mapping Tools

Polar Projections in Google Maps

These were developed in-house and are provided by our Tomcat based tile server called Environmental Imaging Server (EIS). This tile server is also used extensively on the NANOOS NVS Portal.