Abstract:

A free-running version of ROMS, the Regional Ocean Modelling System, is implemented for a domain in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. This 500m solution, which excludes river forcing, is used to characterize the role of river forcing in generating submesoscale currents in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.

Suggested Citation:

Roy Barkan. 2017. Northern Gulf of Mexico Region Ocean Modelling System (ROMS) simulations, 500m resolution, no-river forcing. Distributed by: GRIIDC, Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N79885FW

Publications:

Choi, J., Bracco, A., Barkan, R., Shchepetkin, A. F., McWilliams, J. C., & Molemaker, J. M. (2017). Submesoscale Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Part III: Lagrangian Implications. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 47(9), 2361–2376. doi:10.1175/jpo-d-17-0036.1

Barkan, R., McWilliams, J. C., Molemaker, M. J., Choi, J., Srinivasan, K., Shchepetkin, A. F., & Bracco, A. (2017). Submesoscale Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Part II: Temperature–Salinity Relations and Cross-Shelf Transport Processes. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 47(9), 2347–2360. doi:10.1175/jpo-d-17-0040.1

Barkan, R., McWilliams, J. C., Shchepetkin, A. F., Molemaker, M. J., Renault, L., Bracco, A., & Choi, J. (2017). Submesoscale Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Part I: Regional and Seasonal Characterization and the Role of River Outflow. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 47(9), 2325–2346. doi:10.1175/jpo-d-17-0035.1

Barkan, R., Molemaker, M. J., Srinivasan, K., McWilliams, J. C., & D’Asaro, E. A. (2019). The Role of Horizontal Divergence in Submesoscale Frontogenesis. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49(6), 1593–1618. doi:10.1175/jpo-d-18-0162.1

Sun, D., Bracco, A., Barkan, R., Berta, M., Dauhajre, D., Molemaker, M. J., … McWilliams, J. C. (2020). Diurnal Cycling of Submesoscale Dynamics: Lagrangian Implications in Drifter Observations and Model Simulations of the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(6), 1605–1623. doi:10.1175/jpo-d-19-0241.1

Purpose:

This solution is compared with the 500m solution that has river forcing.

Data Parameters and Units:

velocities (m/s), salinity (PSU), temperature (C), sea surface height (m), boundary layer depth (m), vertical mixing coefficient (m^2/s), ocean time (s since initialization), heat flux (watts/m^2), freshwater flux (cm/day), heat flux sensitivity to SST (W/m^2 deg C), solar shortwave radiation (Watts/m^2), momentum stress (Newton/m^2)

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