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The page below presents the results of simulations of the advection of passive tracers North of Taiwan that were carried out using the Smith and Sandwell bathymetry, v9 (2007). The tracers are continually introduced at set of possible mooring locations and then advected/mixed by the dynamical ocean model equations (without wind or tidal forcing). A goal of these simulations is to estimate the influence of
The following two links contain the main results and files for two sets of simulations that we have carried out for the Taiwan region. In each case, simulations are initialized from a regional summer climatology that we have created using the Hydrobase software and quality-controlled data also from HydroBase. The horizontal resolution is 3km and 44 terrain-following levels are used in the vertical.
The above two sets of simulations have different bathymetries. The first set is based on the Smith and Sandwell Bathymetry (courtesy of Brian Calder). The second set is based on the NCOR bathymetry (National Center for Ocean Research, National Taiwan University, courtesy of Dr. San Jan). The smoothing of these bathymetries is also different, aiming to tune to amplitude of the vertical velocities for a fixed horizontal resolution of 3km. Bathymetries are presented in: