Dataset: Coastal Gulf of Maine model output

Name: Passive particle runs, larval movement, sea surface temperature, and velocity videos from Gulf of Maine coastal models from May to September of 2014
Published: 2021-10-06
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:45.1 E:-66.430738 S:44.1 W:-69.109341

Temporal Extent: 2014-05-01 - 2014-09-28

Project:

An integrated theoretical and empirical approach to across-shelf mixing and connectivity of mussel populations (MuLTI-2)

Intertidal community assembly and dynamics: Integrating broad-scale regional variation in environmental forcing and benthic-pelagic coupling (GOMEPRO)

Principal Investigator:

Huijie Xue (University of Maine)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2021-10-06

Restricted:

Validated:

Current State:

Preliminary and in progress

Passive particle runs, larval movement, sea surface temperature, and velocity videos from Gulf of Maine coastal models from May to September of 2014

Abstract:

This dataset includes model output animations from two coastal Gulf of Maine models. The eastern coastal Gulf of Maine model has bounds of 41.666667 to 44.666667 latitude (Massachusetts Bay to east of Penobscot Bay) and extends from the intertidal zone (5 m above the mean sea level) to approximately 60 km offshore. The animations from the eastern model include 20 .avi video files from May to September of 2014 of passive particle runs (4 per month) and larval movement animations. The animations from the western model include sea surface temperature (SST) and velocity monthly animations from May to September of 2014.

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Description

Details of the model output animations and metadata are available in a data table served from this landing page. See the "Data Files" section to download a zip file containing "Coastal Gulf of Maine model output and documentation."

Methods & Sampling

The two coastal models are based on the Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) version 2.7, and the results from both models are (will continue to be) validated using a combination of datasets, including temporal data of sea surface height, temperature, salinity and current velocity as well as spatial distributed current profiles and CTD transects in both cross-shelf and along shelf directions (see the datasets from linked projects). The predicted particle trajectories are calculated using the FVCOM i-state configuration model (FISCM), an offline Lagrangian model developed by Geoff Cowles of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Code used to generate these output is currently being documented. It will be made available at the end of the project.

For more information about FVCOM see: http://fvcom.smast.umassd.edu/fvcom/

Data Processing Description

BCO-DMO data manager notes:
* data version 2: 2018-11-26 replaces data version 1 and adds an additional animation of real time larval tracking
* data version 3: 2021-10-06 repaces data version 2 and adds additional output from a second coastal GoM model. Additional columns describing model output added to the dataset.

Data Files

File
model_output.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 5.07 KB) MD5:f2ee1fe8ea51b07ba6965e8a60889426 Primary data file for dataset ID 707065

Supplemental Files

File

Coastal Gulf of Maine model output and documentation
filename: model_output_v3.zip

(ZIP Archive (ZIP), 1,006.17 MB)
MD5:0aaf3d97ee1e90bcadebed62c5af8ee4

This zip file contains output and a readme files for two Coastal Gulf of Maine models.

There are three types of animations. SST with velocity overlays, passive particle trajectories, and larval movements. Metadata for these animations including file name is available in a data table accessible from the dataset landing page "Coastal Gulf of Maine model output" https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/707065.

There are a total of 20 particle runs, 4 per month in May, June, July, August and September 2014. 

The eastern Gulf of Maine coastal model: from -69.109341 to -66.430738 longitude (west of Penobscot Bay to Passamaquoddy Bay) and extending from the intertidal zone (5 m above the mean sea level) to approximately 60 km offshore.

The western Gulf of Maine coastal model: from 41.666667 to 44.666667 latitude (Massachusetts Bay to east of Penobscot Bay) and extending from the intertidal zone (5 m above the mean sea level) to approximately 60 km offshore.

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1333797
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1458239

Deployments

None available yet

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Model_Name	Model name	unitless	brief_desc
Description	Description of video file (e.g. "SST with velocity overlay"). Type of data in video file (particle or SST&V).	unitless	exp_type
Run	Run identifier	unitless	exp_id
Start_Date	Start date of the run in format yyyy-mm-dd Format: %Y-%m-%d	unitless	start_date
Start_Time	Start time of the run in format hh:mm Format: %H:%M	unitless	time_start
End_Date	End date of the run in format yyyy-mm-dd Format: %Y-%m-%d	unitless	end_date
filename	Filename	unitless	file_name
file_size_MB	Video file size	megabytes (MB)	time_start
video_file_link	Link to download the video file of the run	unitless	file_link

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Dataset: Coastal Gulf of Maine model output