Dataset for: Mesoscale-submesoscale interactions in the Gulf of Mexico: From oil dispersion to climate

This dataset modeled the Lagrangian processes, which presents that illustrating the physical interactions across mesoscale and submesoscale flows focusing on the Gulf of Mexico during the period of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blow-out using LTRANS v2b numerical model based on 1-km ROMS simulation. There are three jobs performed here. The first case is Lagrangian tracers released at the near-bottom layer of Deepwater Horizon and were tracked for 20 days [chaos_deepWaterHorizon_tracer5202.nc]. The second case shows 20-day trajectories of tracers deployed at the surface in winter (February) and summer (August) [chaos_feb2015_tracer1681.nc and chaos_aug2015_tracer1681.nc.nc]. The third case has two sets of data, including 1-km resolution and 5-km resolution. This case illustrates that tracers released at different depths (5m, 50 m and 100 m) and in different months (February, May, August and November) and tracked for about 30-40 days. This dataset supports the publication: Bracco, A., Liu, G., & Sun, D. (2019). Mesoscale-submesoscale interactions in the Gulf of Mexico: From oil dispersion to climate. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 119, 63–72. doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2018.12.012