Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) of Gulf of Mexico forecasts stemming from initial conditions uncertainties, surrogate construction for time-dependent uncertain time series

The data consists of an ensemble of HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) forecasts that sample the uncertainty in the initial conditions using a Latin Hypercube approach. The samples were generated in order to investigate the construction of surrogates for uncertain time series of a given quantity of interest. The perturbations consist of the two leading Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) modes identified in Iskandarani et al., (2016). The HYCOM configuration is similar to the experiment 20.1 used operationally by the US Navy for ocean prediction during the period 2003–2010 (see https://hycom.org/data/goml0pt04/expt-20pt1 for more details). The model has a 1/25° (~4 km) horizontal resolution and 20 vertical levels. The computational domain is open along portions of its southern, eastern and northern boundaries, where values are provided by a lower-resolution (1/12◦ vs. 1/25◦) simulation of HYCOM configured for the Atlantic Ocean. The model is forced at the surface by three hourly outputs from the Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMP), which has a 27-km resolution. For the present study, model simulations are run for 2 months, from May 1 to June 29, 2010. Each model output is the daily averaged, centered at 12 noon, of the date corresponding to the file name (e.g. archm.2010_121_12.cdf is the file corresponding to the 121st day of the year 2010).