Nowcast/archived regional ocean forecast models available from NOAA on Amazon S3

[jdpye]

https://noaa-nos-ofs-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

Accessing these on the Python side is not too hard with xarray and zarr, the R workflow is still not known to me however. An updating bucket with the last 3+ years of nowcast/forecast model results for many ocean variables.

Another hurdle may be the irregular grid models.

[SimonDedman]

@jdpye Keen to discuss this; will add you to email about to go around