Dataset: Coastal Gulf of Maine model output

Name: Passive particle runs and larval movement videos from an eastern Gulf of Maine coastal model from May to September of 2014
Published: 2018-11-26
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:

2018-11-26

Restricted:

Validated:

Current State:

Under revision

Passive particle runs and larval movement videos from an eastern Gulf of Maine coastal model from May to September of 2014

Abstract:

This dataset includes model output animations from an eastern Gulf of Maine coastal model with bounds of -69.109341 to -66.430738 longitude, west of Penobscot Bay to Passamaquoddy Bay. It extends from the intertidal zone (5 m above the mean sea level) to approximately 60 km offshore. The animations include 20 .avi video files from May to September of 2014 of passive particle runs (4 per month) and larval movement animations.

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Description

Currently, this dataset includes passive particle trajectories and larval movement animations from 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.

Future updates to this dataset will also include sea surface temperatures and velocity overlay animations from 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.

Acquisition Description

The Eastern Maine Coastal ocean model was based on the Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) version 2.7, and the model result was validated using a combination of datasets, including temporal data of sea surface height, temperature, salinity and current velocity as well as spatial current profiles and CTD transects in both cross-shelf and along shelf directions (see related CTD dataset ). The predicted particle trajectories were calculated using the FVCOM i-state configuration model (FISCM), an offline Lagrangian model developed by Geoff Cowles of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Data were saved directly from the model into monthly (for circulation files) or bimonthly (for particle trajectory files) NETCDF files. No additional processing has been performed. Video files were created from these output data as .avi files.

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/

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

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Funding Sources

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

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Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Run_Type	Type of data in video file (particle or SST&V)	unitless	exp_type
Run	Run identifier	untiless	exp_id
Start_Date	Starte date of the run in format yyyy-mm-dd	unitless	start_date
Start_Time	Start time of the run in format hh:mm	unitless	time
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