| id | _bfm_pel.mean.nc |
Dataset: NWES BFM 3D Pelagic Data
Catalog: NWES BFM Pelagic Data Selection
Access:
| Service | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OpenDAP | Data Access | Access dataset through OPeNDAP using the DAP2 protcol. |
| WCS | Data Access | Supports access to geospatial data as 'coverages'. |
| WMS | Data Access | Supports access to georegistered map images from geoscience datasets. |
| NetcdfSubset | Data Access | A web service for subsetting CDM scientific datasets. |
Description:
- Summary: The 3D hydrodynamic model GETM (General Estuarine Transport Model43, www.getm.eu) solves the shallow-water, heat balance, and density equations. It uses GOTM (General Ocean Turbulence Model) to solve the vertical dimension. GETM was run using the north-west European shelf setup used to study the potential largescale effects of tidal energy generation in the Pentland Firth44 and to develop a suspended particulate matter model45. The setup includes a spherical grid covering the area 46.4N-63N, 17.25W-13E with a resolution of 0.08 in longitude and 0.05 in latitude (approximately 5.5 km), and 25 non-equidistant layers in the vertical. The model bathymetry was based on the NOOS bathymetry (www.noos.cc/index.php?id=173). The model was forced with tidal constituents derived from TOPEX-POSEIDON satellite altimetry46, atmospheric forcing from ECMWF ERA-Interim 47,48 (www.ecmwf.int/en/research/climate-reanalysis/era-interim), interpolated river runoff from a range of observational data sets (the National River Flow Archive (www.ceh.ac.uk/data/nrfa/index.html) for UK rivers, the Agence de l'eau Loire-Bretagne, Agence de l'eau Seine-Normandie and IFREMER for French rivers, the DONAR database for Netherlands rivers, ARGE Elbe, the Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Ökologie and the Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde for German rivers, and the Institute for Marine Research, Bergen, for Norwegian rivers; see also Lenhart and colleagues49), and depth-resolved temperature- and salinity boundary conditions from ECMWF-ORAS450,51 (http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/d/charts/oras4/reanalysis/).
- Rights: This model data was generated as part of an academic research project NERC/DEFRA Shelf Seas Biogeochemistry, and as the owners of the data held Cefas must be informed of intent for scientific use and appropriate acknowledgment given in any publications arising therefrom. The data is provided free of charge, without warranty of any kind.