Data and products of the Coastal Ice Ocean Prediction System (CIOPS)
The Coastal Ice Ocean Predicton System (CIOPS) provides a 48 hour ocean and ice forecast over different domains (East, West, Salish Sea) four times a day at 1/36° resolution. A pseudo-analysis component is forced at the ocean boundaries by the Regional Ice Ocean Prediction System (RIOPS) forecasts and spectrally nudged to the RIOPS solution in the deep ocean. Fields from the pseudo-analysis are used to initialize the 00Z forecast, whilst the 06, 12 and 18Z forecasts use a restart files saved at hour 6 from the previous forecast. The atmospheric fluxes for both the pseudo-analysis and forecast components are provided by the High Resolution Deterministic Prediction System (HRDPS) blended both spatially and temporally with either the Global Deterministic Prediction System (GDPS) (for CIOPS-East) or the Regional Deterministic Predicton System (RDPS) (for CIOPS-West) for areas not covered by the HRDPS.
Access
How to access the data
This data is available on the MSC Datamart data services:
- Data available via the GeoMet-Weather geospatial web services
- NetCDF data available on the MSC Datamart
An overview and examples to access and use the Meteorological Service of Canada's open data is available.
Licence
The end-user licence for Environment and Climate Change Canada's data servers specifies the conditions of use of this data.
MSC Open Data Service Usage Policy
The MSC Open Data Service Usage Policy determines what constitutes an acceptable use of MSC Open Data services and provides users best practices for optimal use.
Metadata
- The metadata of the Coastal Ice-Ocean Prediction System for the East Coast of Canada (CIOPS-East) is available on the Open Government Portal.
- The metadata of the Coastal Ice-Ocean Prediction System for the West Coast of Canada (CIOPS-West) is available on the Open Government Portal.
- The metadata of the Coastal Ice-Ocean Prediction System for the Salish Sea region (CIOPS-SalishSea) is available on the Open Government Portal.
Technical documentation
- Current version of the Coastal Ice Ocean Prediction System over the East domain (CIOPS-East)
- Technical note for CIOPS-East
- Diagram of dependencies for CIOPS-East
- Current version of the Coastal Ice Ocean Prediction System over the West domain (CIOPS-West)
- Technical note for CIOPS-West
- Diagram of dependencies for CIOPS-West
Changelog
The chronology of changes to the CIOPS is available here.