Abstract:

Model output of circulation, water mass and dynamical properties (currents, temperature, salinity, and sea level) for the Mississippi Bight and Mississippi Sound region of the northern Gulf of Mexico. The model application is newly developed as part of the GOMRI-funded CONCORDE consortium and has been configured with 400 m spatial resolution and 24 vertical layers. Surface atmospheric forcing is from a 1 km hourly product that resolves the diurnal sea breeze, which was also developed as part of the CONCORDE consortium’s modeling component (the CONCORDE Meteorological Analysis - CMA). Observed freshwater input derived from available tide gauge stations are applied as rivering forcing, and the Naval Research Laboratory-Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NRL-NCOM) output at 1km was used as outer boundary condition forcing. The model output provided in this dataset provides hourly resolution of physical parameters (currents, temperature, salinity, water levels) for the time frame around the Summer 2016 sampling campaign of the CONCORDE observational teams (14 July - 15 August 2016). Other related data are available under GRIIDC Unique Dataset Identifiers (UDIs) R4.x260.000:0102 (DOI: 10.7266/N7GM85X5), R4.x260.000:0104 (DOI: 10.7266/N7P55M4G), and R4.x260.206:0003 (DOI: 10.7266/N7125R1V).

Suggested Citation:

Jerry Wiggert, Chudong Pan, Mike Dinniman, Eileen Hofmann, Kemal Cambazoglu. 2019. Physical Model of the Mississippi Sound and Bight from 2016-07-14 to 2016-08-15. Distributed by: GRIIDC, Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N7ZP44QK

Publications:

Greer, A. T., Boyette, A. D., Cruz, V. J., Cambazoglu, M. K., Dzwonkowski, B., Chiaverano, L. M., … Wiggert, J. D. (2020). Contrasting fine‐scale distributional patterns of zooplankton driven by the formation of a diatom‐dominated thin layer. Limnology and Oceanography. doi:10.1002/lno.11450

Purpose:

The model output for this time frame from the CONCORDE synthetic model have been generated with the explicit purpose of providing environmental context to support the interpretation of the ship-based field measurements obtained during the Spring field campaign of the CONCORDE consortium.

Data Parameters and Units:

ocean_time = time since initialization (seconds since 2014-01-01 00:00:00), Latitude (decimal degrees), Longitude (decimal degrees), Vertical viscosity coefficient (m^2/s), Temperature vertical diffusion coefficient (m^2/s), Surface u-momentum stress (newton/m^2), Surface v-momentum stress (newton/m^2), Bathymetry (m), Sea level (zeta, m), Zonal (u, m/s), Meridional current velocity (v, m/s), Vertical velocity (w, m/s), Temperature (temp, degrees C), Salinity (salt) and other model parameters. Note: Model output from July 14 to August 15, 2016, are saved in one NetCDF file.

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