This file describes what is in the nesting viewgraph Top panel: Outlines of the 3 nested domains used in ASCOT-01 Northwest Atlantic domain (NWA) (~15km resolution) Gulf of Maine domain (GOM) (~5km resolution) Massachusetts Bay domain (MB) (~5/3km resolution) Middle panel Averaging diagram. - Solid lines are the borders of the computational boxes for tracer variables (temperature, salinity) in the PE model in the Gulf of Maine domain. - Open circles are the centers of the tracer boxes (tracer points) in the Gulf of Maine domain. - Dashed lines are the borders of the tracer boxes in the Massachusetts Bay domain. - Plus signs are the centers of the tracer boxes (tracer points) Massachusetts Bay domain. The red highlights how 9 boxes in the Massachusetts Bay domain are averaged to replace the corresponding GOM box. - Collocation ensures that the 9 MB boxes exactly define 1 GOM box. Also note that the final row of MB boxes are unused for averaging. Bottom panel Interpolation diagram. - PE boxes same as in averaging diagram. The green lines join the centers of the GOM tracer boxes used in interpolating to the green shaded MB boundary tracer boxes.