Model results (nutrients) - Ross Sea and West Antarctic Peninsula regions


Investigators Eileen E. Hofmann
John M. Klinck
Walker O. Smith
Barbara B. Prézelin
Co-Investigators none
SMP Project Comparative modeling and data analysis studies for the Ross Sea and West Antarctic Peninsula regions: A JGOFS synthesis and modeling project
Product Model results for the Ross Sea
Description

RossSea_nutrients.nc is a netCDF file containing monthly gridded climatologies of nitrate, silicate and chlorophyll for an area around the Ross Sea for the months of November, December, January and February. Details on how the climatologies where created can be found in Smith et al., 2003. The climatologies are gridded on the same one degree horizontal grid as the World Ocean Atlas 2001 (WOA01) and cover the area, Longitude: 155.5E - 220.5E, Latitude: 79.5S - 59.5S. They are on the same 33 vertical depth levels as the WOA01 and use the same land mask.

The defined variables are:

  • 'X' - grid latitude
  • 'Y' - grid longitude
  • 'Z' - grid depth values (m)
  • 'T' - time (months). Four values: 10.5, 11.5, 0.5, 1.5
  • 'silicate' - Gridded silicate array (micromole/liter). 4-d grid (X,Y,Z,T)
  • 'nitrate' - Gridded nitrate array (micromole/liter).
  • 'chlorophyll' - Gridded chlorophyll array (microgram/liter).

Submitted November 2003
e-Citation

Hofmann, E. E. et al.; U.S. JGOFS Synthesis & Modeling Project - Data. U.S. JGOFS. iPub: November 2003. 'date you accessed the data' http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/las?dset=Model+Results/Ross+Sea+Monthly+Nutrients

References

Smith, W.O., Jr., M.S. Dinniman, J.M. Klinck and E.E. Hofmann, 2003. Biogeochemical climatologies of the Ross Sea, Antarctica: seasonal patterns of nutrients and biomass. Deep-Sea Research II, 50(22-26),3083-3101, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2003.07.010

Contact Mike Dinniman
Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography
Old Dominion University
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email: msd@ccpo.odu.edu