Dataset Available Cold Storage

Large Eddy Simulation high-frequency snapshots of multiscale frontal spindown simulations

Authors: Baylor Fox-Kemper, Peter Hamlington, Luke Van Roekel, Nobuhiro Suzuki

Published On: Jan 24 2018 16:34 UTC

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7266/N7D50KBC

UDI: R4.x265.000:0024

Cold Storage Files

Number of Cold Storage Files:
61

Cold Storage File Size:
6.18 TB

File Format:
netCDF, txt

Project Information

Funded By:
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative

Funding Cycle:
RFP-IV

Research Group:
Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment II (CARTHE II)

Point of Contact

Baylor Fox-Kemper
Brown University / Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
baylor@brown.edu

Theme keywords

submesoscale, Langmuir, Stokes, frontogenesis

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Abstract:

These data are a wind, wave, and cooling forced simulation of two fronts in the upper ocean. These are high-frequency (in time) snapshots from the simulations analyzed in Suzuki et al. 2016, based on simulations described in Hamlington et al. 2014 and Smith et al. 2016.

Suggested Citation:

Baylor Fox-Kemper, Peter Hamlington, Luke Van Roekel, Nobuhiro Suzuki. 2018. Large Eddy Simulation high-frequency snapshots of multiscale frontal spindown simulations. Distributed by: GRIIDC, Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N7D50KBC

Publications:

Suzuki, N., Fox-Kemper, B., Hamlington, P. E., & Van Roekel, L. P. (2016). Surface waves affect frontogenesis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121(5), 3597–3624. doi:10.1002/2015jc011563

Purpose:

These data are used to connect the submesoscale and Langmuir-scale phenomena in an idealized domain. They were particularly important in the identification of Stokes forces on frontogenesis (Suzuki et al. 2016) as theorized by McWilliams & Fox-Kemper 2013.

Data Parameters and Units:

Velocity (3 components): u:units = "m/s", v:units = "m/s", w:units = "m/s"; time:units = "second"; pressure divided by Bousinesq background density:units = "m^2/s^2"; temperature:units = "K"; SGS_TKE:units = "m^2/s^2" File naming convention: The files have names of the form "StkOn_d11_h13_m57_s57.nc". The first part indicates that the simulation was performed accounting for Stokes drift ("Stokes On"). The rest of the elements indicate the simulation time. In this example, the file corresponds to simulation day 11, hour 13, minute 57, second 57.

Provenance and Historical References:

Suzuki, N., Fox-Kemper, B., Hamlington, P.E., & Van Roekel, L.P. 2016. Surface waves affect frontogenesis. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 121(5): 3597-3624. doi: 10.1002/2015JC011563. Smith, K.M., Hamlington, P.E., & Fox-Kemper, B. 2016. Effects of submesoscale turbulence on ocean tracers. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 121: 908-933. doi: 10.1002/2015JC011089. Hamlington, P.E., Roekel, L.P., Fox-Kemper, B., Julien, K., & Chini, G. 2014. Langmuir-Submesoscale Interactions: Descriptive Analysis of Multiscale Frontal Spindown Simulations. J. Physical Oceanography, 44: 2249-2272. doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-13-0139.1. McWilliams, J. C. & B. Fox-Kemper. 2013. Oceanic wave-balanced surface fronts and filaments. J. Fluid Mech., 730, 464–490, doi:10.1017/jfm.2013.348.