1/8˚ resolution MOM6-COBALT physical and biogeochemical diagnostics for the Gulf of Mexico, monthly means between 2008-2018

The files in this dataset contain monthly mean chlorophyll (µg/kg), pH, nitrate (mol/kg), dissolved oxygen (mol/kg), potential temperature (˚C) and salinity model outputs for 2008-2018 for the region between 18-31˚N, 98-80˚W. Data was extracted from a global grid run with coupled ocean-ice model configured using the Modular Ocean Model 6 (MOM6, https://github.com/NOAA-GFDL/MOM6 ) and Sea Ice Simulator (SIS2) developed at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (Adcroft et al., 2019). The horizontal resolution of the grid is 1/8˚, which is considered eddying and no eddy parameterization was included. Vertically, the model uses 75 hybrid vertical-sigma2 layer coordinates that is remapped onto 35 World Ocean Atlas/Coupled Model Intercomparison Project standard depth levels. The atmospheric forcing was derived from the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis version 1.5 (JRA55 1.5, https://jra.kishou.go.jp/JRA-55/index_en.html#jra-55). The model is driven by river freshwater runoff from a monthly climatology derived from Dai and Trenberth (2002) and Dai et al. (2009), which can be assessed at https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds551.0/. A remapping scheme was used to add freshwater into the appropriate coastal grid cells near the river mouths. The biogeochemical model used was the Carbon, Ocean Biogeochemistry and Lower Trophics (COBALTv2, Stock et al., 2020), which uses 33 tracers for representation of coupled elemental cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, iron, silicon, alkalinity, oxygen and lithogenic matter and associated plankton food web dynamics. More details about the model setup are described in Liu et al. (2019) and Liu et al. (2021).

References:

Adcroft, A., Anderson, W., Blanton, C., Bushuk, M., Dufour, C.O., Dunne, J.P., Griffies, S.M. et al. (2019). The GFDL Global Ocean and Sea Ice Model OM4.0: Model description and simulation features. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth System, doi: 10.1029/2019MS001726

Dai, A., T. Qian, K. E. Trenberth, and J. D Milliman, 2009: Changes in continental freshwater discharge from 1948-2004. J. Climate, 22, 2773-2791

Dai, A., and K. E. Trenberth, 2002: Estimates of freshwater discharge from continents: Latitudinal and seasonal variations. J. Hydrometeorol., 3, 660-687

Liu, X., Dunne, J.P., Stock, C. A., Harrison, M.J., Adcroft, A., Resplandy, L. (2019). Simulating Water Residence Time in the Coastal Ocean: A Global Perspective. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 22, 13910-13919. Doi:10.1029/2019GL085097

Liu, X., Stock, C.A., Dunne, J.P., Lee, M., Shevliakova, E., Malyshev, S., Milly, P.C.D (2021). Simulated Global Coastal Ecosystem Responses to a Half-Century Increase in River Nitrogen Loads.

Stock, C. A., Dunne, J. P., Fan, S., Ginoux, P., John, J., Krasting, J. P., et al. (2020). Ocean biogeochemistry in GFDL's Earth System Model 4.1 and its response to increasing atmospheric CO2. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, e2019MS002043. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS002043