Modeled drifter simulations for oyster larvae trajectory in Mississippi Sound and Bight from 2017-05-14 to 2017-10-26

Model output of dynamical properties (location, depth, temperature, salinity, and density) along Lagrangian drifter trajectories in estuarine and shelf waters of Mississippi Bight region of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Drifter releases were initiated from the surface level, bottom level and mid-water column level at 24 known oyster spawning locations within the estuarine waters of Mississippi (Mississippi Sound), Alabama (Mobile Bay) and Louisiana (Chandeleur and Breton Sounds). 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. 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 1km was used as outer boundary condition forcing. 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 modeling component (the CONCORDE Meteorological Analysis - CMA). The model output provided in this dataset provides 5-minute temporal resolution of physical parameters (currents, temperature, salinity, water levels and other model parameters) for the oyster recruitment timeframe of summer/fall 2017 (May 14 to October 26, 2017). Other related data are available under GRIIDC Unique Dataset Identifier (UDIs) MS.x841.000:0008 (DOI: 10.7266/SPKQN0AT), MS.x841.000:0010 (DOI: 10.7266/ZKM29VT2), MS.x841.000:0011 (DOI: 10.7266/QXZVP60A), MS.x841.000:0012 (DOI: 10.7266/CGFJ6TY4), and MS.x841.000:0013 (DOI: 10.7266/FYMFTNPP).