Dataset for: Development of the CSOMIO Coupled Ocean-Oil-Sediment- Biology Model

The Consortium for Simulation of Oil-Microbial Interactions in the Ocean (CSOMIO) model system is an open source code that simulates oil plume dynamics and oil surface drift as well as biodegradation, sedimentation, and surface weathering processes. This is a coupled modeling system embedded within the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) model. The system is based on the following components: three-dimensional oil transport and surface weathering, biogeochemistry (microbial biodegradation), and sedimentation (flocculation). A central component in CSOMIO coupled system is a newly developed algorithm of two-way mapping between the Eulerian and Lagrangian frameworks that allows coupling between the oil model and biogeochemical and sediment components. A full description can be found in the associated journal article by Dukhovskoy et al., 2021. The dataset includes CSOMIO code, an example of the user-defined input files (modified for specific experiments), initial fields, and boundary forcing fields. This dataset supports the publication: Dukhovskoy, Dmitry S., Steven L Morey, Eric P Chassignet, Xu Chen, Victoria Janet Coles, Linlin Cui, Courtney K Harris, Robert Hetland, Tian-Jian Hsu, Andrew James Manning, Michael R Stukel, Kristen Thyng, and Jiaze Wang (2021). Development of the CSOMIO coupled ocean-oil-sediment-biology model. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 194. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.629299