Towards High-Fidelity Simulations of Coastal Submesoscale Baroclinic Instabilities with MPAS-O Part I: Data and Code

Idealized Model Outputs This dataset archive contains a subset of the model outputs that are necessary for reproducing the analyses presented in the accompanying manuscript. The datasets correspond to either the MPAS-O or ROMS ocean models at resolutions ranging from 10 km to 100 m. Velocity and corresponding invariant (vorticity/divergence) variables and tracer variables are saved here with only their surface values. Additionally, all variables except those required to compute kinetic energy time series over the simulation period are only saved for a time window that corresponds to the shaded region in Figure 4 of the accompanying manuscript. Some grid metric variables necessary for MPAS-O calculations are also included within "MPAS-O_Initial_*.nc" files. There are two zipped tar directories (mpaso_winds.tar.gz and roms_winds.tar.gz) containing the outputs of all wind stress sensitivity tests needed to recreate the results shown in Figure 2. All datasets are saved in NetCDF format.