Coastal Sea Level Prediction

vs NOS/NOAA Tide Gauge Measurement

	NOS Station	Correlation Coef.
Daily	Port Isabel, TX Rock Port, TX Galveston P21, TX Grand Isle, LA Wave Land, MS Duphin Island, AL Mobile, AL Pensacola, FL Apalachicola, FL (picture) Cedar Key, FL St. Petersburg, FL Fort Myers, FL Key West, FL Virginia Key, FL (picture) Trident Pier, FL	0.85 0.81 0.91 0.90 0.92 0.90 0.93 0.90 0.77 0.88 0.90 0.86 0.79 0.76 0.78
Monthly	Galveston P21, TX Grand Isle, LA Pensacola, FL St. Petersburg, FL	0.91 0.93 0.91 0.94
Hurrican Ivan	Grand Isle, LA | with tide Wave Land, MS | with tide Duphin Island, AL | with tide Pensacola, FL | with tide	0.98 0.91 0.96 0.98

Forecast Skill (against Persistence)
(2002/12/01-2004/04/01)

RMS Error	Correlation Coef

Ko, Dong S., Ruth H. Preller, and Paul J. Martin, An Experimental Real-Time Intra-Americas Sea         Ocean Nowcast/Forecast System for Coastal Prediction, Proceedings, AMS 5th Conference on         Coastal Atmospheric & Oceanic Prediction & Processes, 2003.
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Compared to Satellite Remote-Sensing Data

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