NOAA Three-dimensional Surge and Tide Operational Forecast System for the Pacific Basin (STOFS-3D-Pacific) Dataset

Details

• Alternative Title:
  STOFS-3D-Pacific
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Office of Coast Survey ; National Centers for Environmental Prediction (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  NOAA Office of Coast Survey
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NOS (National Ocean Service) ; OCS (Office of Coast Survey) ; NWS (National Weather Service) ; NCEP (National Centers for Environmental Prediction)
• Description:
  NOAA's Surge and Tide Operational Forecast System: Three-Dimensional Component for the Pacific Basin (STOFS-3D-Pacific). STOFS-3D-Pacific provides users with the 24-hour nowcasts (analyses of near present conditions) and up to 48-hour forecast guidance of the water level conditions, as well as 2- and 3-dimensional fields of water temperature, salinity, and currents. STOFS-3D-Pacific is run one time (on 12 UTC) per day. The system domain encompasses the U.S. CONUS West Coast (Puget Sound, Salish Sea, Columbia River, San Francisco Bay), Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Hawaiian Islands, Aleutian Islands, Guam and Northern Mariana Islands, and other U.S. Pacific Island territories. The water levels produced by the STOFS-3D-Pacific represent the combined tidal and subtidal water surface elevations and are unanimously referenced to Local Mean Sea Level (LMSL).
• Content Notes:
  The Coast Survey Development Laboratory (CSDL) in NOAA/National Ocean Service (NOS)/Office of Coast Survey has upgraded the Surge and Tide Operational Forecast System (STOFS) to Version 3.1. A Service Change Notice (SCN) has been issued and can be found at https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pdf_2026/SCN26-51_STOFS.v3.1_Updated.aaa.pdf
• Keywords:
  • Water Level
  • Storm Surge
  • Forecasting
  • STOFS
  • Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
• Series:
  Operational STOFS-3D-Global Configuration ; STOFS 3D Atlantic
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/89a2-6691
• Dataset Download URL:
  https://noaa-nos-stofs3d-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/STOFS-3D-Pac/
• Identifier:
  gov.noaa.nmfs.inport: 80347
• Format:
  http
• Publisher:
  United States. Office of Coast Survey
• Document Type:
  Dataset
• Funding:
  NA21NOS0080197; NA22NOS47302223; NA23NOS4730238; ; NA23NOS4730239
• Temporal:
  2023 - Continuing
• Place as Subject:
  Pacific Basin
• Corporate as Subject:
  IHO ; US Coast Guard SAR ; NOAA NWS
• Media Type:
  application/xml, application/x-netcdf, application/x-grib
• Dataset:
  Office of Coast Survey; National Centers for Environmental Prediction. (2026). NOAA Three-dimensional Surge and Tide Operational Forecast System for the Pacific Basin (STOFS-3D-Pacific) Data set. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Accessed DATE. https://doi.org/10.25923/89a2-6691
• Context:
  Mixed geospatial files
• Type:
  NetCDF ; GRIB2; GPKG
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain
• Rights Statement:
  These data were produced by NOAA and are not subject to copyright protection in the United States. NOAA waives any potential copyright and related rights in these data worldwide through the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0-1.0). ; STOFS model output is NOT total water level guidance. Actual water levels can be significantly higher than forecast due to waves and other components not presently included in STOFS. ; Please check with your regional National Weather Service forecast office for the official water level forecast.
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Collection(s):
  National Weather Service (NWS) ; National Ocean Service (NOS)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e