Towards high-fidelity simulations of coastal submesoscale baroclinic instabilities with MPAS-O (vE3SM3.0.0) Part I: Data and Code

Idealized Model Outputs

This dataset archive contains a subset of the model outputs that are necessary for reproducing the analyses presented in the accompanying manuscript, and correspond to both the MPAS-O or ROMS ocean models at resolutions ranging from 10 km to 100 m (i.e., MPAS-O_Output_*.nc or ROMS_Output_*.nc). Because of size limitations, most variables required to reproduce the analyses within the paper are are saved here only with surface values. Additionally, all variables except those required to compute kinetic energy time series over the simulation period are only saved for a time window that corresponds to the shaded region in Figure 3 of the accompanying manuscript. NetCDF files necessary for plotting time series of volume-averaged eddy kinetic energy can be found within the folders "MPAS-O_EKE.zip" and "ROMS_EKE.zip" for all spatial resolutions. Grid metric variables necessary for MPAS-O calculations are also included within "MPAS-O_Initial_*.nc" files, and data necessary to reproduce numerical mixing and appendix figures are saved within the "bichan_mnum.zip" folder. All datasets are saved in either NetCDF or numpy data file formats.

Post processing, figure generation, and various paper related calculations can be found at https://github.com/kyle-hinson/Ocean-Model-Comparison, and are also contained here within the zipped folder "Ocean-Model-Comparison_GitHub_Meta_Repository.zip". In order to reproduce these analyses, we recommend following the examples set forth in the analysis notebooks by either downloading or connecting directly to the datasets found in this repository. Reproducing these simulations directly in order to generate a new set of model outputs will require downloading the ROMS code found in "roms-dylanschlichting-roms-seaice-dvd.zip" and the MPAS-O code found in "E3SM-dylanschlichting-add-br08-dvd.zip". Both of these source code datasets are complemented by namelist and other input files found within the folder "Code" in the GitHub meta-repository.