Ocean Currents from eddy-resolving model simulations

This data set includes the model data used in the paper by Barnier et al. (2020) <strong>"Modelling the impact of flow-driven turbine power plants on great wind-driven ocean currents and the assessment of their energy potential"</strong> to appear in Nature Energy in 2020. It contains the ocean currents produced by eddy-resolving model simulations in the regions of the Gulf Stream and Kuroshio. Two one year long simulations are available. A Control simulation, and a Turbine simulation. In the Turbine simulation, virtual large turbine power plants (TPPs) are implemented at given locations.The effects of the TPPs on the flow is performed in the study of Barnier et al. (2020) by comparing the Control and the Turbine simulations.本数据集涵盖Barnier等人2020年将发表于《Nature Energy》的论文《洋流驱动涡轮发电厂对大型风生洋流的影响建模及其能源潜力评估》（英文原标题："Modelling the impact of flow-driven turbine power plants on great wind-driven ocean currents and the assessment of their energy potential"）所使用的模式数据。数据集包含湾流（Gulf Stream）与黑潮（Kuroshio）海域中，经涡分辨模式（eddy-resolving model）模拟得到的洋流数据。本次公开的模拟试验共两组，均为期一年，分别为对照模拟（Control simulation）与涡轮模拟（Turbine simulation）。在涡轮模拟中，研究人员在指定位置布设了虚拟大型涡轮发电厂（Turbine Power Plants，简称TPPs）。Barnier等人2020年的研究通过对比对照模拟与涡轮模拟的结果，分析了涡轮发电厂对洋流的影响效应。