Physical Model of the Mississippi Sound and Bight from 2015-05-14 to 2015-07-14

Model output of circulation, water mass and dynamical properties (currents, temperature, salinity, and sea level) for the Mississippi Bight and Mississippi Sound region of the northern Gulf of Mexico. The model application was developed as part of the GOMRI-funded CONCORDE consortium and has been configured with 400 m spatial resolution and 24 vertical layers. Surface atmospheric forcing is from a 1 km hourly product that resolves the diurnal sea breeze, which was also developed as part of the CONCORDE consortium’s modeling component (the CONCORDE Meteorological Analysis - CMA). Observed freshwater input derived from available tide gauge stations are applied as riverine forcing, and the Naval Research Laboratory-Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NRL-NCOM) output at 1 km was used as outer boundary condition forcing. The model output provided in this dataset provides a daily resolution of physical parameters (currents, temperature, salinity, water levels) for the 2015 summer recruitment season of oysters in Mississippi Sound (2015-05-14 to 2015-07-14). Other related data are available under GRIIDC Unique Dataset Identifiers (UDIs) MS.x841.000:0008 (DOI: 10.7266/SPKQN0AT), MS.x841.000:0009 (DOI: 10.7266/2SP9XTRT), MS.x841.000:0010 (DOI: 10.7266/ZKM29VT2), MS.x841.000:0012 (DOI: 10.7266/CGFJ6TY4), and MS.x841.000:0013 (DOI: 10.7266/FYMFTNPP).