GoldOcean: Hourly sea surface height from a yearlong global ocean simulation
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University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory
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Planetary Science Institute
Description
GoldOcean is the sea surface height field from a general circulation model of the ocean, with hourly snapshots throughout the course of a yearlong simulation. The model is the Generalized Ocean Layered Model (GOLD), performed at a nominal 1/8 degree resolution and then interpolated from the model grid to a uniform quarter-degree grid, the same grid used by the AVISO/CMEMS gridded altimetry products. The forcing includes wind, buoyancy fluxes, and tidal forcing representative of the year 2007. It differs from the parallel simulation GoldOceanNT in that tidal forcing is included.
For more details see Simmons, H.L., and M.H. Alford. 2012. Simulating the long-range swell of internal waves generated by ocean storms. Oceanography 25(2):30–41, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2012.39.
The image below shows the sea surface height anomaly relative to the time average at the start of the simulation.
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Additional details
Related works
- Is variant form of
- Model: 10.5281/zenodo.11396569 (DOI)
Funding
- Eddy Dynamics from Along-track Altimetry 80NSSC21K1823
- NASA Shared Services Center
Software
- Repository URL
- https://github.com/jonathanlilly/jLab
- Programming language
- MATLAB
- Development Status
- Active
References
- Simmons, H.L., and M.H. Alford. 2012. Simulating the long-range swell of internal waves generated by ocean storms. Oceanography 25(2):30–41, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2012.39.