FVCOM-simulated currents, salinity and suspended sediment concentrations for Barataria Bay and adjacent Louisiana-Texas continental shelf from 2010-04-01 to 2010-12-20

The Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) and its SWAVE and SED modules were applied over the northern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf that includes the Barataria Bay to simulate three-dimensional tidal and circulation patterns driven by the Mississippi/Atchafalaya Rivers and river diversion, tides, winds, and wind waves, as well as suspended sand/silt/clay concentrations and geomorphology evolution. The numerical model mesh covers a much larger computational domain which extends longitudinally from Mobile Bay, Alabama to the west of Galveston Bay, Texas and offshore to ~ 300 – 1000 m isobaths over the Alabama-Mississippi-Louisiana-Texas continental shelf and slope. Since the wave-current-sediment fully coupled computation is time-consuming and the output file is huge (on the order of terabytes), two sets of modeling data are submitted. The first one is a wave-current-sediment fully coupled simulation result from April 1 to June 30, 2010. The NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) file is ~ 1 TB. The second dataset is FVCOM simulated current and salinity (without coupling to the wave and sediment modules) for the same geographic area from July 1 to December 20, 2010. The output file is about 230 GB.