Supplementary forecast data for "Suppression of local upwelling in the Gulf of Panama predicted a season in advance" by McAdam et al.

This repository contains output from the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change Seasonal Prediction System version 4 (CMCC-SPS4) used in the publication "Suppression of local upwelling in the Gulf of Panama predicted a season in advance" by McAdam et al. Data Contents CMCC-SPS4 is an operational system distributed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service. Temporal Coverage: 50-member ensemble hindcasts are avilable over the period 1993-2024, with 30 members ensemble operational forecasts covering 2025 onwards. All data is provided as monthly averages. Spatial Coverage: The spatial coverage corresponds to an extended region centered around the Gulf of Panama (90W, 70W, -2.5S, 17.5N). All data is provided on the native curvilinear grid used by the ocean model component (NEMO) of the system. Vertical Coverage: Subsurface temperature and vertical velocity fields extend to 50m depth on a fixed level coordinate system. Three variables are provided: Subsurface Temperature. Sea water potential temperature with units of degrees Celsius (thetao). Initialisation: October, November & December. Vertical Velocity. Sea water vertical velocity with units of metres per second (wo): Initialisation: December. Surface Wind Stress. Surface downward X and Y stresses (tauuo and tauvo). Initialisation: December. File structure {variable_name}/{year}{initialisation}/{short_name}_{year}{initialisation}_{ensemblemember}_{targetyear}{targetmonth} For example, file "SubsurfaceTemperature/199312/thetao_199312_001_199402.nc" contains ensemble member 1 of the forecast, intialised in December 1993, for February 1994.