NOAA’s Gulf of Maine Operational Forecast System (GOMOFS): Model Development and Hindcast Skill Assessment

The Gulf of Maine (GoM) is a semi-enclosed coastal basin located along the coastline of the northeastern U.S. (Figure 1). It is surrounded by the New England coast to the west and to the north. It is adjacent to the Bay of Fundy (BF) to the northeast and it is bounded by the coast of Nova Scotia to the east. To the south, the Gulf water communicates with the open Atlantic Ocean through a series of shoals, banks and channels, such as Nantucket Shoals (NS), the Great South Channel (GSC), Georges Bank (GB), the Northeast Channel (NEC), and Brown Bank (BB).