he St. Magnus Bay (SMB) model is an implementation of the Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM) and has a domain focused on St. Magnus Bay on the west coast of Shetland. The model grid is unstructured with the highest horizontal resolution as small as 15 – 20 m between nodes in Row Sound between the Shetland mainland and the island of Muckle Roe. More typically the node spacing is 50 – 100 m in the Sounds and Voes of this region. The outer open boundary has a node spacing of around 1.2 km. The water column is resolved by 10 terrain following sigma layers, each representing 10% of the water column.
Variables include current velocities, water elevations, temperature and salinity, bed stress magnitude and various turbulence parameters (stored in netCDF format).
The data are from a single climatological year representing an average of the years 1990-2014.
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Publisher | |
| Modified | 2021-05-13 |
| Release Date | 2021-05-13 |
| Identifier | eadb266b-802b-416c-94cb-b3894457eb13 |
| Spatial / Geographical Coverage Area | POLYGON ((-2.427978515625 60.084536928891, -2.427978515625 60.869488097412, -1.109619140625 60.869488097412, -1.109619140625 60.084536928891)) |
| Temporal Coverage | 2016-06-06 to 2018-02-23 |
| Language | English (United Kingdom) |
| License | UK Open Government Licence (OGL) |
| Data Dictionary | The SSM is an implementation of the Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM). FVCOM was developed by the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, USA, by Chen et al. (2003) and is still actively being developed. The SMB 1.02 is a full year climatological run, which represents average conditions with a 1993 tidal component. The model is nested within the wider SSM and forced by the wider SSM. The model forcing is made up of the following: Boundary conditions: Wider SSM climatology version 2.01 (De Dominicis et al. 2017, De Dominicis et al. 2018) For a full description of the original development of the ECLH model see Price et al (2016). Although note that the model climatological model forcing is as described above. References: Bell, V. A., Kay, A. L., Jones, R. G., & Moore, R. J. (2007). Development of a high resolution grid-based river flow model for use with regional climate model output. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 11(1), 532–549. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-11-532-2007 Cole, S. J., & Moore, R. J. (2009). Distributed hydrological modelling using weather radar in gauged and ungauged basins. Advances in Water Resources, 32(7), 1107–1120. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2009.01.006 De Dominicis, M., O’Hara Murray, R., & Wolf, J. (2017). Multi-scale ocean response to a large tidal stream turbine. Renewable Energy, 114, 1160–1179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.07.058 De Dominicis, M., O’Hara Murray, R., Wolf, J., & Gallego, A. (2018). The Scottish Shelf Model 1990 – 2014 climatology version 2.01. https://doi.org/10.7489/12037-1 Dee, D. P., Uppala, S. M., Simmons, A. J., Berrisford, P., Poli, P., Kobayashi, S., Andrae, U., Balmaseda, M. A., Balsamo, G., Bauer, P., Bechtold, P., Beljaars, A. C. M., van de Berg, L., Bidlot, J., Bormann, N., Delsol, C., Dragani, R., Fuentes, M., Geer, A. J., … Vitart, F. (2011). The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 137(656), 553–597. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.828 Price, D., Stuiver, C., Johnson, H., Gallego, A., & Murray, R. O. H. (2016). The Scottish Shelf Model. Part 3 : St Magnus Bay Sub-Domain Scottish. Marine and Freshwater Science, 7(5). https://doi.org/10.7489/1694-1 |
| Contact Name | Marine Scotland Science Oceanography |
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| Public Access Level | Public |