GRTOFS sub-tidal water levels (3-hourly)

[lanerolle]

I use the 3-hourly operational Global RTOFS (GRTOFS) sub-tidal water levels to force my ROMS model for Cook Inlet (Alaska) along the open ocean boundaries. However, GRTOFS fields are arhived only for the past 2-years at the official website.

I am looking for 3-hourly GRTOFS sub-tidal water levels for the 09/01/2012-03/15/2013 time period. Does anyone on the ROMS forum have these fields and if so, would you be willing to kindly give me access to them?

Many thanks.

[wilkin]

Though it uses a different meteorological forcing product (NOGAPS in the time period you seek) global HYCOM should in principle provide the sea level reanalysis you ask for:
https://hycom.org/dataserver/glb-reanalysis

In would pay to check the consistency of the two when you merge them in case there is a change in effective sea level datum associated with any mean dynamic topography in the altimeter data assimilation.