RSMAS/MPO Coastal and Shelf Modeling

The larger model domain (parent grid) is centered on Florida Bay, encompasses the eastern side of the Loop Current and the Florida Strait all the way to Cuba to the south and the Great Bahamas Banks to the East. A zoom (child grid) focuses on Florida Bay and the Dry Tortugas.

RESOLUTION:

The horizontal resolution of the parent grid is 2 km and the minimum depth is 3m. In the child grid the horizontal resolution is 700 m and the minimum depth 1m. Both models have 25 vertical layers.

NESTED: Yes

OUTER MODELS:

This is an off-line nesting within the outer model, which doesn't use the AGRIF package since both models are not run at the same time.

FORCING:

Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS, https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/public/) and Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/coamps-web/web/home). Wind stress is obtained from QuikSCAT scatterometer (http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/PRODUCTS/p109.html) or calculated from COAMPS surface wind speed.

Tides were set at the boundaries by the TPXO6 global tide model (http://www.esr.org/polar_tide_models/Model_TPXO62_load.html).

APPLICATIONS:

• Dry Tortugas Pink Shrimp Fishery

CONTACT:

Laurent Cherubin — lcherubin@rsmas.miami.edu
Joan Browder — Joan.Browder@noaa.gov