Wind speed and direction | Wind velocity (10m along y-axis) in the atmosphere by model prediction | National Centers for Enviromental Prediction, Central Operations | Global Forecast System

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Global Forecast System
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Identifier
Wind speed and direction | Wind velocity (10m along y-axis) in the atmosphere by model prediction | National Centers for Enviromental Prediction, Central Operations | Global Forecast System
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Global Forecast System
Purpose
Weather forecasting model
Status
onGoing On going
edmerp
  GFS
edmo
  National Centers for Enviromental Prediction, Central Operations
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/
Originator
  National Centers for Enviromental Prediction, Environmental modeling center
http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Used by challenges
  • Atlantic - CH03 - Oil Platform Leaks
Environmental matrix
  • Air
Production mode
  • Real-time
Visibility
  • Search via reference catalogue (e.g. MyOcean, GEOSS Geoportal…)
Policy visibility
  • There is detailed information provided to understand data policy
Readyness
  • Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content
Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)
  • Wind speed and direction
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Meteorological geographical features
Processing level of characteristics
  • Forecast/Hindcast
Data delivery mechanisms
  • Online discovery and downloading services
Parameter Usage Vocabulary (P01)
  • Wind velocity (10m along y-axis) in the atmosphere by model prediction
Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)
  • Meteorology
Service extent
  • The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service
Validation
  • Submitted
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Unrestricted
Use limitation
Open and Free. No charge
Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Distance
0.125  degree
Metadata language
Français
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Oceans
Environment description
input for oil spill simulation
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Vertical extent

Minimum value
10
Maximum value
10
Dimension name
Time
Resolution
6  hour
Transformation parameter availability
Yes
Checkpoint Availability
Yes
Distribution format
  • GRIB2 ()

OnLine resource
Inventory of the Data Products of the NOAA servers ( WWW:LINK )
OnLine resource
GFS ( WWW:LINK )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Domain consistency

Name of measure
Responsiveness

Quantitative result

Value
Online downloading (i.e. a few hours or less) for release

Domain consistency

Name of measure
Reliability

Quantitative result

Statement
http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/GFS/ref.php
Hierarchy level
datasetComponent
Other
ATLANTIC_CH03_Product_1_3
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Begin date
2016-05-10T00:00:00
End date
2016-05-15

Vertical extent

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
10

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Horizontal Spatial Coverage
Measure identification
AP.1.1
Measure description
Horizontal coverage extent of product (eg : surface of the Mediterranean Sea)

Quantitative result

Value type
Real
Value
360000000

gmd:DQ_DescriptiveResult

Date / Time
2018-02-02T00:00:00
Statement
Global

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Vertical Spatial Coverage
Measure identification
AP.1.2
Measure description
Vertical coverage extent of product

Quantitative result

Value type
Real
Value
10

gmd:DQ_DescriptiveResult

Date / Time
2018-02-02T00:00:00

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Temporal Coverage
Measure identification
AP.1.3
Measure description
Temporal coverage extent of product

Quantitative result

Value type
Integer
Value
10

gmd:DQ_DescriptiveResult

Date / Time
2018-02-02T00:00:00
Statement
forecast

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Number of items
Measure identification
AP.1.4
Measure description
Count of all items in the dataset or sample. Describe the items which are counted. If the number is determined by sampling unit (density), define the sampling unit (eg size of mesh).

Quantitative result

Value type
Integer
Value
1

gmd:DQ_DescriptiveResult

Date / Time
2018-02-02T00:00:00

Conceptual consistency

Name of measure
Number of Characteristics
Measure identification
AP.2.1
Measure description
Number of characteristics in product

Quantitative result

Value type
Integer

gmd:DQ_DescriptiveResult

Date / Time
2018-02-02T00:00:00

Thematic classification correctness

Name of measure
Horizontal resolution
Measure identification
AP.3.1
Measure description
Horizontal mesh size or equivalent value for the given scale of product (eg 50m for 1/50 000)

Quantitative result

Value type
Integer
Value
13000

gmd:DQ_DescriptiveResult

Date / Time
2018-02-02T00:00:00

Thematic classification correctness

Name of measure
Vertical resolution
Measure identification
AP.3.2
Measure description
Average vertical sampling

Quantitative result

Value type
Real

gmd:DQ_DescriptiveResult

Date / Time
2018-02-02T00:00:00

Thematic classification correctness

Name of measure
Temporal resolution
Measure identification
AP.3.3
Measure description
Temporal sampling interval of product

Quantitative result

Value type
Real
Value
0.125

gmd:DQ_DescriptiveResult

Date / Time
2018-02-02T00:00:00

Quantitative attribute accuracy

Name of measure
Thematic accuracy
Measure identification
AP.3.4
Measure description
Percentage error of the product and description of error concept for the product (100 words max) provided by expert

Quantitative result

Value type
Percentage
Value
100

Temporal validity

Name of measure
Temporal validity
Measure identification
AP.4.1
Measure description
Max elapsed time between last input data records update and product creation date. Minimum value 1/24 day.

Quantitative result

Value type
Integer
Value
1

gmd:DQ_DescriptiveResult

Date / Time
2018-02-02T00:00:00

gmd:DQ_UsabilityElement

Name of measure
Usability
Measure identification
AP.5.1
Value
Good

gmd:DQ_DescriptiveResult

Date / Time
2018-02-02T00:00:00
Statement

Horizontal resolution is only 10% of that needed, which reduces the ability of the model to predict at the coast.

Date 2018-02-02
Statement
http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/GFS/ref.php

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Horizontal spatial coverage compliance
Measure identification
UD.APE.1.1
Measure description

Percentage to which the extent of the horizontal spatial

coverage of the selected input data is not compliant with the DPS extent in km**2

(UD_AP_1_1 - DPS_AP_1_1)*100/DPS_AP_1_1

Quantitative result

Value type
Percentage
Value
1025

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Horizontal spatial coverage fitness for use error
Measure identification
UD.FU.1.1
Measure description

Combination of the errors of the product

component Cn with the error of the selected input data set Ud Cn used for this component
Value
100

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Vertical spatial coverage compliance
Measure identification
UD.APE.1.2
Measure description

Percentage to which the vertical coverage of the selected

input data is not compliant with the DPS coverage extent in metres

(UD_AP_1_2 - DPS_AP_1_2)*100/DPS_AP_1_2

Quantitative result

Value type
Percentage
Value
0

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Vertical spatial coverage fitness for use error
Measure identification
UD.FU.1.2
Measure description

Combination of the errors of the product

component Cn with the error of the selected input data set Ud Cn used for this component
Value
0

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Temporal coverage compliance
Measure identification
UD.APE.1.3
Measure description

Percentage to which the time coverage of the selected input data is compliant with the DPS coverage extent in days

(UD_AP_1_3 - DPS_AP_1_3)*100/DPS_AP_1_3

Quantitative result

Value type
Percentage
Value
100

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Temporal coverage fitness for use error
Measure identification
UD.FU.1.3
Measure description

Combination of the errors of the product

component Cn with the error of the selected input data set Ud Cn used for this component
Value
100

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Number of items compliance
Measure identification
UD.APE.1.4
Measure description

Percentage to which the number of items of the selected input data is compliant with the DPS number of items in days

(UD_AP_1_4 - DPS_AP_1_4)*100/DPS_AP_1_4

Quantitative result

Value type
Percentage

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Error count fitness for use error
Measure identification
UD.FU.1.4
Measure description

Combination of the errors of the product

component Cn with the error of the selected input data set Ud Cn used for this component

Thematic classification correctness

Name of measure
Horizontal resolution compliance
Measure identification
UD.APE.3.1
Measure description

Percentage to which the horizontal resolution or equivalent scale value (eg 50 m for map scale of 1/50 000) data

or mean horizontal sampling interval of the selected input data is compliant not with the DPS horizontal

resolution

(DPS_AP_3_1 - UD_AP_3_1)*100/DPS_AP_3_1

Quantitative result

Value type
Percentage
Value
-1200

Thematic classification correctness

Name of measure
Horizontal resolution fitness for use error
Measure identification
UD.FU.3.1
Measure description

Combination of the errors of the product

component Cn with the error of the selected input data set Ud Cn used for this component
Value
-100

Thematic classification correctness

Name of measure
Vertical resolution compliance
Measure identification
UD.APE.3.2
Measure description

Percentage to which the vertical sampling interval of the selected input data is not compliant with the DPS

vertical resolution

(DPS_AP_3_2 - UD_AP_3_2)*100/DPS_AP_3_2

Quantitative result

Value type
Percentage

Thematic classification correctness

Name of measure
Vertical resolution fitness for use error
Measure identification
UD.FU.3.2
Measure description

Combination of the errors of the product

component Cn with the error of the selected input data set Ud Cn used for this component

Thematic classification correctness

Name of measure
Temporal resolution compliance
Measure identification
UD.APE.3.3
Measure description

Percentage to which the temporal sampling interval

is not compliant with the DPS temporal sampling interval

(DPS_AP_3_3-UD_AP_3_3)*100/DPS_AP_3_3

Quantitative result

Value type
Percentage

Thematic classification correctness

Name of measure
Temporal resolution fitness for use error
Measure identification
UD.FU.3.3
Measure description

Combination of the error of the product

component Cn with the error of the selected input data set Ud Cn used for this component

Quantitative attribute accuracy

Name of measure
Thematic accuracy compliance
Measure identification
UD.APE.3.4
Measure description

Compliance of the value domain of

the accuracy of the selected input data with the value domain of the accuracy defined in DPS (% extracted from

thematic accuracy description)

UD_AP_3_4

Quantitative result

Value type
Percentage
Value
100

Quantitative attribute accuracy

Name of measure
Thematic accuracy fitness for use error
Measure identification
UD.FU.3.4
Measure description

Combination of the error of the product

component Cn with the error of the selected input data set Ud Cn used for this component
Value
100

Temporal validity

Name of measure
Temporal validity compliance
Measure identification
UD.APE.4.1
Measure description

Percentage to which the elapsed time between last selected input data record update is not compliant with the max

elapsed time specified in DPS

(DPS_AP_4_1 - UD_AP_4_1)*100/DPS_AP_4_1

Quantitative result

Value type
Percentage
Value
0

Temporal validity

Name of measure
Temporal validity fitness for use error
Measure identification
UD.FU.4.1
Measure description

Combination od errors of extent to which

the elapsed time between last selected input data record update and the product creation date is compliant with

the max elapsed time specified in DPS
Value
0
Statement
http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/GFS/ref.php
Attribute description
observation
Content type
Physical measurement
Description
10
File identifier
dc274954-b775-44be-974a-cb6ef1886ae3 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name
Atlantic - CH03 - Oil Platform Leaks
Date stamp
2018-04-11T12:37:00Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data
Metadata standard version
1.0
  CLS (editor M. Sutton/E. Rouzies with help of L. Soudarin)
+33561393917
 
 

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Keywords

Data delivery mechanisms
Online discovery and downloading services
Environmental matrix
Air
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Meteorological geographical features
Policy visibility
There is detailed information provided to understand data policy
Processing level of characteristics
Forecast/Hindcast
Production mode
Real-time
Readyness
Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content
Service extent
The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service
Used by challenges
Atlantic - CH03 - Oil Platform Leaks
Validation
Submitted
Visibility
Search via reference catalogue (e.g. MyOcean, GEOSS Geoportal…)

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