Data for GRL manuscript "Vertical Coordinate and Resolution Dependence of the Second Moment Turbulent Closure Models"

The zipped directory contains data used for analysis and figures in the GRL manuscript "Vertical Coordinate and Resolution Dependence of the Second Moment Turbulent Closure Models"

### OSP observations:

Air Temperature: airt50n145w_hr.ascii   

Ocean Temperature: t50n145w_hr.ascii 

Ocean Salinity: s50n145w_hr.ascii

Total Heat Flux:  heatflux_papa.dat

10m Wind Speed: wspd_papa.dat

u and v components of Stokes drift velocity hourly time series given on vertical grid vertical_grid_128: uvstk_papa.dat

### NCOM simulation results

out_Model_LayerGrid.dat

Model:

  h15 - use harcourt (2015)  

  kc04 - use Kantha & Clayson (2004)

  myl2p5 - use Mellor & Yamda (1982) level 2.5

Layer:

  030, 040, 050, 080, 100

Grid:

  s - uniform stretched grid

  u - uniform grid

  y - mixed layer enhanced grid

The following variables are provied in all out_*.dat files as given in their headers

 depth (m) tke (cm2/s2) dis (cm2/s3) tl (cm)  zkm (cm2/s)  zkh (cm2/s) T (C) S (psu) pd (kg/m3) z-mid (m)

### LES output

Eddy viscosity computed using LES model

  LES simulation with all foring - Km_les_AllForcing.dat

  LES simulation without Stokes drift - Km_les_NoStk.dat

  LES simulation without Heat Flux - Km_les_NoHF.dat