Guedes Soares, Carlos; Bettencourt, João Horta (2021): Estimates of climatological energy reservoirs and energy transfer rates in the Azores Current [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.938329
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Abstract:
Data consists of model estimates of potential and kinetic energy reservoirs and energy transfer rates in the Azores current obtained from a climatological simulations of the Eastern Central North Atlantic. The model used is ROMS 3.7. The model run this dataset is taken from is labelled ECNA124T. The model was configured as follows:
* Domain: 34.4º to 5.7ºW and 29º to 46ºN.
* Horizontal resolution: 4.2 km in the meridional direction and 4.4 km in the zonal direction.
* Vertical discretization: 20 sigma layers.
* Bathymetry: ETOPO1, smoothed to satisfy a topographic stiffness-ratio of 0.2.
* Minimum depth: 10 m.
* Numerics: 3rd order upstream advection scheme for momentum and tracers; 4th-order centred scheme for vertical advection of momentum and tracers.
* Vertical mixing: KPP scheme for vertical mixing (Large et al., 1994).
* Horizontal momentum and tracer diffusion: set to zero.
* Bottom drag law: quadratic with drag coefficient of 0.003.
* Surface forcing: monthly climatological momentum, heat, freshwater and shortwave radiation fluxes from the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set.
* Open boundaries forcing: 2D (barotropic) and 3D (baroclinic) velocities, and active tracers (potential temperature and salinity) are nudged to climatological values.
* The data is the average of the quantities in a box around the mean position of the Azores Current.
Related to:
Bettencourt, João Horta; Guedes Soares, Carlos (2021): Seasonality of the Energy Transfers in the Azores Current. Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr), https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10505788.1
Further details:
Large, W G; McWilliams, J C; Doney, S C (1994): Oceanic vertical mixing: A review and a model with a nonlocal boundary layer parameterization. Reviews of Geophysics, 32(4), 363, https://doi.org/10.1029/94rg01872
Funding:
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), grant/award no. PTDC/CTA-AMB/31141/2017: OBSERVA.FISH: Autonomous Observing Systems in Fishing Vessels for the Support of Marine Ecosystem Management
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 39.000000 * Median Longitude: -20.050000 * South-bound Latitude: 29.000000 * West-bound Longitude: -34.400000 * North-bound Latitude: 49.000000 * East-bound Longitude: -5.700000
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| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
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| 1 | Binary Object | Binary | Guedes Soares, Carlos | |||
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License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Basic curation (CurationLevelB)
Size:
12 data points
Data
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| 1 Binary | 2 Content | 3 Binary (Size) [Bytes] |
|---|---|---|
| ecna124t_Energetica_AzC.log | Time series of energy reservoirs | 437.8 kBytes |
| balanco_reservatorios.mat | Average energy reservoirs | 88.3 kBytes |
| balanco_transferencias.mat | Average energy transfer rates | 328.6 kBytes |
| ecna124t_reservoir_density_time_series.txt | Time series of maximum, minimum and average energy density reservoirs | 379.9 kBytes |
| ecna124t_reservoir_volume_avg_time_series.txt | Time series of volume averaged energy reservoirs | 229.6 kBytes |
| ecna124t_energy_transfers_volume_avg_time_series.txt | Time series of volume averaged energy transfer rates | 765.4 kBytes |