Oceanographic Conditions. 2007 - 2040. North Slope Alaska. ...

• Main Authors: Eymold, William, Flanary, Christopher, Erikson, Li, Nederhoff, Kees, Chartrand, Christopher, Jones, Craig, Kasper, Jeremy, Bull, Diana
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Interdisciplinary Research for Arctic Coastal Environments (InteRFACE) 2022
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > EROSION/SEDIMENTATION; earth science > oceans > ocean salinity; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > SEA STATE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WINDS > SURFACE WINDS; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15485/1876201; https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1876201/

Complete representations of oceanographic conditions require spatial and temporal information about the significant wave height (Hs), peak wave period (Tp), wind speed, wind direction, wave direction, water level, salinity, and temperature. This data develops location-independent typologies to reduce the number of boundary conditions needed to assess nearshore oceanographic environments in both a Historical (2007-2019) and Future (2020-2040) timespan along the Alaskan North Slope. Wave information for both time spans were generated from WaveWatch III, Delft3D-FLOW, and Delft3D-WAVE simulations forced by wind conditions from reanalysis data (e.g., ASRv2 and ERA5) for the historical simulations while projected conditions were obtained from downscaled GFDL-CM3 forced under RCP8.5 conditions. Salinity was generated from GOFS 3.1 for the years between 2008-2015 and skin temperature of the ocean was obtained from ASRv2 reanalysis data for the years between 2007-2016. To identify generalized oceanographic ...