Observed and modelled data from Discovery Islands (British Columbia, Canada) for summer 2019

This repository contains two datasets associated with the publication "Fjord circulation permits persistent subsurface water mass in a long, deep mid-latitude inlet" by Laura Bianucci et al. In that work, an application of the Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM v4.1) was run from May 24 to June 27, 2019 in the Discovery Islands region of British Columbia, Canada. The two datasets are described below:

1) Observed temperature and salinity profiles available in this area during this time period are included in the dataset, along with the modelled values at the same times and locations. 

"obs_model_pairs.zip" contains 114 netcdf files. Each file has observed and modelled profiles for temperature and salinity at one station within the Discovery Islands region. 

2) Modelled mean summer circulation and conditions in Bute Inlet (a long, deep fjord within the Discovery Islands model domain) for the two model configurations in the mentioned publication. The "Baseline" simulation used observed initial conditions in Bute Inlet, while the "Sensitivity" simulation removed the observed cold subsurface water mass from the initial profiles. In this dataset, we provide 29-day averages of the following variables in a transect along Bute Inlet (the averaging properly removes tidal effects): potential temperature, density, along-inlet velocity, and Brunt-Väisälä frequency (N^2). 

"TransectData_baseline.nc" has the modelled mean variables from the Baseline simulation

"TransectData_sensitivity.nc" has the modelled mean variables from the Sensitivity simulation

The preprint associated with the publication is found at EGUsphere - Persistence of a Subsurface Water Mass in a Deep Mid-Latitude Fjord (copernicus.org). Please refer to the accepted version of the mansucript, rather than the preprint (link not available at the time of the creation of this repository).