Particle trajectories in the Weddell and Bellingshausen seas

This dataset includes the results of Lagrangian particle tracking experiments with Parsels model in the Weddell Sea. Virtual particles were released every 8 hours during a year at 10 m below the surface with the spatial step of 1° of the longitude-latitude grid on the Weddell Sea shelf, where the ocean is shallower than 1500 m. 3D hydrodynamic fields for the model forcing were taken from the WAOM model simulation results (u,v,w,T,S).

The following information for each particle is stored once every 5 days: longitude (lon in files), latitude (lat), time (time), depth (z), temperature (temp), salinity (sal), ice draft (ice), travelled distance (distance), ocean depth (dep).

All particles’ trajectories are divided by release time between six *.zip archives. Each *.zip archive contains results in NetCDF format for 20 years of simulations and can be considered as an independent data set with 1/6 of the total number of released particles.