South China Sea

Title: South China Sea
Resolution: 10km
Institution: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Temporal Frequency: Climatological Monthly Data
Computational Grid: [99oE-128oE, 0oN-25oN]

Description

We initialized the CMOMS model with winter climatological WOA13 (World Ocean Atlas 2013) potential temperature and salinity, and spun the model up for 50 years. Then, the last 5 years model results are extracted as climatological monthly data for downloading.  Variables in the netcdf file includes:

longitude, latitude: horizontal grid system.

mask: land-sea mask.

level : depth of the data in the water below the sea surface.

u: zonal velocity (m/s positive value for eastward velocity) in the water column, whose depth is defined in variable “level”.

v: meridional velocity (m/s positive value for northward velocity) in the water column, whose depth is defined in variable “level”.

w: vertical velocity (m/s positive value for upward velocity) in the water column, whose depth is defined in variable “level”. BE CAUTIOUS WHEN YOU’RE USING A VERTICAL VELOCITY FROM CONTINUITY EQUATION.

ubar: the zonal velocity (m/s positive value for eastward velocity) vertically averaged in the water column from sea surface to bottom.

vbar: the meridional velocity (m/s positive value for northward velocity) vertically averaged in the water column from sea surface to bottom.

zeta:  sea surface elevation (m).

temp: potential temperature (degree C) referring to sea surface in the water column.

salt: salinity in the water column.

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Physical variables

Biochemical variables

To be loading…

Acknowledgment

The use of CMOMS data should be properly acknowledged e.g.,

Acknowledgment of the CMOMS data: The data of CMOMS (China Sea Multi-scale Ocean Modeling System) is obtained from Department of Ocean Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology at https://odmp.ust.hk/cmoms/.

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