Title of Dataset: 1-km ROMS Model Output for Iceland Basin (May 2018)

Principal Investigator: Harper Simmons (Applied Physics Laboratory - UW)
Custodian: Laur Ferris (VIMS - W&M)

Format: NetCDF

Keywords: Iceland Basin, numerical modeling, physical oceanography, Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)

File name structure: There is one directory called NISKINESAB_1km_2018_135_mesoNoTides. The directory contains 70.4 GB of model output produced using the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS), separated into 2.0-4.2 GB files. There is also a single grid file called NISKINESAB_1km.nc that is 22.1 MB. Each file corresponds to one day, with niskine_his_*.nc and niskine_his2_*.nc containing primarily 3D and 2D fields, respectively.

Description: Model output with 1-km, 1-hr resolution and 50 sigma layers was produced using the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS, https://www.myroms.org/), a free-surface, hydrostatic, primitive equation model (Shchepetkin and McWilliams, 2005). A run covering 15-May-2018 through 31-May-2018 was initialized using 1/12º resolution GLORYS12V1. Flux forcing was computed with turbulent fluxes from bulk formulae (Fairall et al., 1996; Large and Pond, 1981) using the atmospheric state obtained from MERRA (Gelaro et al., 2017). The model is described in Ferris & Gong (2024) and is provided courtesy of Harper Simmons.

Associated Publications: Ferris, L., Gong, D. (2024). Damping effects of viscous dissipation on growth of symmetric instability. arXiv e-Print. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.16818

Funding: Data was produced by PI Harper Simmons under Office of Naval Research award N000141812386 for the Near Inertial Shear and Kinetic Energy (NISKINe) Departmental Research Initiative. Computational resources were provided by Research Computing Systems at University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Recommended Software: We recommend using the community MATLAB tools (see https://romsmatlab.tiddlyspot.com/) and TEOS-10 library (see https://www.teos-10.org/index.htm).