Data for: "From surfacing to stranding: The origins and dispersal dynamics of a neustonic siphonophore"

Physical data used in the particle-tracking model and model output for "From surfacing to stranding: The origins and dispersal dynamics of a neustonic siphonophore" (Abedon et al., under review). E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information; https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00305, https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00016 Wind data — Global Ocean Hourly Sea Surface Wind and Stress from Scatterometer and Model. E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information (CMEMS). Marine Data Store (MDS). DOI: https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00305 (Accessed 8 October 2024). Subset contains 6-hr timesteps of the original hourly northward_wind and eastward_wind variables over the northwest Atlantic (7.812–52.31°N, 98.81–49.06°W; 0.125° resolution). Current data — Global Ocean Physics Analysis and Forecast. E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information (CMEMS). Marine Data Store (MDS). DOI: https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00016 (Accessed 9 January 2025). Subset contains 6-hr timesteps of the utotal and vtotal variables at 0.494 m depth over the northwest Atlantic (7.833–52.33°N, 98.83–49.08°W; ~0.083° resolution), representing merged Ekman, geostrophic, tidal, and Stokes drift components. ADT data — Global Ocean Physics Analysis and Forecast. E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information (CMEMS). Marine Data Store (MDS). DOI: https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00016 (Accessed 29 April 2026). Subset contains daily mean zos(absolute dynamic topography) over the northwest Atlantic (10°–55°N, 100°–40°W; ~0.083° resolution). SST data — Global Ocean Physics Analysis and Forecast. E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information (CMEMS). Marine Data Store (MDS). DOI: https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00016 (Accessed 21 May 2026). Subset contains daily mean thetao(sea surface temperature) at 0.494 m depth over the northwest Atlantic (15°–52°N, 99°–50°W; ~0.083° resolution).Simulation Output - Output from 25 365-day particle-tracking model runs starting 1 November 2022, provided as a zipped directory containing zarr-formatted particle trajectory data output at 24-hr intervals (6-hr advection timestep) and CSV files recording the location and timing of stranding events for each run. Code used for this analysis is available at https://github.com/dunnlab/physalia-dispersal-data/tree/main