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Baltic Sea Model Forecast

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Product description(2007-11-23)
WHAT ?PRODUCT-ID

DMI-BALTIC-BSHCmod-FOR

PRODUCT TYPE

Ocean forecast

OUTPUT TYPE

Gridded (analysis)

OVERVIEW

General information: Centre for Ocean and Ice (COI), at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), provides the MERSEA Baltic Sea component.

We run an operational production of forecasts of the physical oceanographic conditions for the North Sea - Baltic Sea system using the DMI-BSHCmod 3D-ocean model. The model is based on the BSHCmod 3D-ocean model developed at Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH), Hamburg, Germany. The DMI version and model set-up of the model code is named DMI-BSHCmod.

DMI-BSHcmod is a 3 dimensional finite difference hydrodynamic model. The model has been run in an operational sense at BSH since the early 1990s and at DMI since 2001. The model is set up in spherical coordinates in the horizontal direction and in the vertical with z coordinate. The calculations are done on an Arakawa C grid.


Quality / Accuracy / Calibration information:
Annual validation reports are produced at DMI. Wih verification against sea level tide gauges, temperature and salinity in-situ observations.

PARAMETERS GROUP
(from BODC)
PARAMETERS (parameter, unit, convention)
  • depth,m,CF
  • eastward_sea_water_velocity,m s-1,CF
  • northward_sea_water_velocity,m s-1,CF
  • sea_ice_area_fraction,1,CF
  • sea_ice_thickness,m,CF
  • sea_surface_height_above_sea_level,m,CF
  • sea_water_salinity,1e-3,CF
  • sea_water_temperature,K,CF
  • upward_sea_water_velocity,m s-1,CF
WHERE ?GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE
65.0
9.030.0
53.0
GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE

Regional scale

SPATIAL RESOLUTION

6/1 n.m.

VERTICAL COVERAGE

from -175 to 0 meters.

WHEN ?TEMPORAL COVERAGESince 2006-12-01 - onGoingTEMPORAL RESOLUTION
PROCESS/ UPDATEUPDATEDcontinual
BY (supply center)
name : DMI
web site : http://www.dmi.dk

Delivery

ServiceResourceAverage Volume/releaseFormatLicence/
conditions
Distributor
http
21 MBDAPFree
name : DMI
web site : http://www.dmi.dk
full
http
N/AHTTP/imageFree
name : MERSEA/MIM
web site : http://www.mersea.eu.org/Information/MerseaInformationSystem.html
full

Documentation

TitleOnline ResourcePublication



MARINE ENVIRONMENT AND SECURITY FOR THE
EUROPEAN AREA INTEGRATED PROJECT
IFREMER, BP 70
29280 Plouzane France
merseaip@ifremer.fr