BESTMAS (a coupled sea ice-ocean model) simulated results

PI: Jinlun Zhang; Co-PI: Rebecca Woodgate
Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington
1013 NE 40th St
Seattle, WA 98105
206-543-5569, zhang@apl.washington.edu
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/BEST/BEST.html

Supported by NSF grant: ARC0611967

Description:
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This data set includes BESTMAS simulated monthly mean sea ice thickness (m) and 
velocity (cm/s), snow depth (m), and surface ocean temperature (C) and velocity 
(cm/s) over the whole Bering Sea defined here as the area north of the Aleutian 
Chain up to Bering Strait for the period 1996-2008. More model parameters may 
be added later.

BESTMAS is a coupled sea ice-ocean model with a model domain over the northern 
hemisphere north of 39N. The BESTMAS finite-difference grid is based on a 
generalized orthogonal curvilinear coordinate system and the "north pole" of 
the model grid is placed in Alaska. Thus, BESTMAS has its highest horizontal 
resolution along the Alaskan coast and in the eastern Bering Sea, with 
grid-spacing ranging from 2 km along the Alaskan coast to 12 km along the 
Aleutian Chain and an average of about 7 km for the whole Bering Sea. Satellite 
sea ice concentration is assimilated.

Data parameters:
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Ice thickness: heff_bering.txt1996, ... heff_bering.txt2008.
Snow depth: snow_bering.txt1996, ... snow_bering.txt2008.
Surface ocean temperature: otemp1_bering.txt1996, ... otemp1_bering.txt2008.
Ice velocity: icevel_bering.txt1996, ... icevel_bering.txt2008.
Surface ocean velocity: uo1_bering.txt1996, ... uo1_bering.txt2008.

Data format:
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ASCII. All files are contained in yearly zips. Each zip contains 5 files, each  
according to the Data parameters above.

Data structure:
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Ice thickness (m) - column 1: year; column 2: lat; column 3: lon; columns 4-15: 
ice thickness from January to December.

Snow depth (m) - column 1: year; column 2: lat; column 3: lon; columns 4-15: 
snow depth from January to December.

Surface ocean temperature (C) - column 1: year; column 2: lat; column 3: lon; 
columns 4-15: surface ocean temperature from January to December.

Ice velocity (cm/s) - column 1: year; column 2: lat; column 3: lon; column 4: 
either U (zonal or west-to-east velocity) or V (meridional or south-to-north 
velocity) component; columns 5-16: ice velocity component from January to 
December.

Surface ocean velocity (cm/s) - column 1: year; column 2: lat; column 3: lon; 
column 4: either U (zonal or west-to-east velocity) or V (meridional or 
south-to-north velocity) component; columns 5-16: surface ocean velocity 
component from January to December.