Ocean Circulation Model of the Mississippi Sound and Bight from 2019-01-01 to 2019-03-31

Model output at hourly resolution of circulation, water mass and dynamical properties (currents, temperature, salinity, and sea level) for the Mississippi Bight and Mississippi Sound region of the northern Gulf of Mexico. The model application has been configured with 400 m spatial resolution and 24 vertical layers. Surface atmospheric forcing, which is a 3 km hourly product that resolves the diurnal sea breeze, was created from NOAA High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model output. Observed freshwater input derived from available tide gauge stations are applied as riverine forcing, and the Navy Coastal Ocean Model - American Seas (NCOM-AMSEAS) operational model output at 3 km, produced by Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC), was used as outer boundary condition forcing. The model output provided here consists of hourly resolution of physical parameters (currents, temperature, salinity, water levels) for a three-month period (2019-01-01 to 2019-03-31).