High-resolution Gulf of Mexico sea surface height downscaled from 10 km global FOSI simulation for 1993-01-01 to 2007-10-13

This is a 3 km resolution regional model (ROMS, Regional Ocean Modeling System) output of the Gulf of Mexico sea surface height [cm] from 1993-01-01 to 2007-10-13. The regional model domain includes the Gulf of Mexico and part of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf Stream and run in an ocean-only uncoupled mode. The model has been initialized and forced at the lateral open boundaries with fields from the uncoupled global 10-km CESM (Community Earth System Model) FOSI (Forced Ocean Sea-Ice experiments) experiment. Surface atmospheric forcing for both the global CESM FOSI and the regional ROMS downscaling simulations is from the JRA55-do reanalysis dataset. The purpose of this downscaling simulation is to check the improvements in the Gulf of Mexico sea level and circulation brought in by a high-resolution regional downscaling method and to tune it if needed. Only the sea surface height field (as a 10-day average) is made available now; other fields such as temperature and currents will be added later.