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High-tide or "nuisance" flooding on the Virginia coast. Credit: Aileen Devlin, Virginia Sea Grant
Mission Statement
The Rapid Prediction of Coastal Sea-level aims to provide quick predictions of sea-level at
various locations
along the coastal United States
using the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) model
with various
atmospheric forcings.
in January 2004 to the four surface forcings (different rows) at four different time lags (different columns). [1]
Ocean Model
Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO)
ECCO, led by the ECCO Consortium, is an ocean model that combines state-of-the-art ocean circulation models with global ocean data sets to create the best possible estimates of ocean circulation and its role in climate. ECCO state estimates faithfully reproduce a large number of ocean and sea ice observations from in situ and satellite instruments by assimilating and constraining hundreds of millions of individual data from many sources. Estimated fields include temperature, salinity, 3D momentum, sea surface height, density, ocean bottom pressure, sea ice, and snow as well as estimates of the atmospheric state every six hours for the last few decades.