Bay of Plenty Climatology

The Bay of Plenty Climatology is a daily climatology estimated from a 25+ years (1994-2020) high-resolution (~1 km horizontal resolution) hydrodynamic hindcast of Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

This repository contains 12 files, corresponding to each month, with the 3D daily climatology for sea surface elevation, temperature, salinity, velocity (u, v) and in z-coordinates. 

For practicality the time units are referenced to hours since day 0 and the calendar used is a 366 day-year. 

For more information about available datasets please visit the project webpage at https://www.moanaproject.org/

A description of the configuration of the simulation is provided by Montaño et al. (2023).

Montaño, M. M., Suanda, S. H., and de Souza, J. M. A. C. (2023). Modelled Coastal
Circulation and Lagrangian Statistics from a Large Coastal Embayment: The Case
of Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa New Zealand. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 281,
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