Collaborating with SPC on Kiritimati project

Two 10-years models hindcast at 150 m and 1km resolution

In a partnership with The Pacific Community (SPC), SIROCCO has develloped two level simulation at 1km and 150m resolution to produce Hindcast over 10 years (2010-2019) for the oceanic circulation arround Kiritimati island (Republic of Kiribati).

The first stage at 1km is forced at the ocean open boundaries with the Mercator global ocean analysis (https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00016) and atmospherci forcing are provided by the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis (https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.adbb2d47).

Then the second stage at 150m is using the SYMPHONIE model at 1 km resolution as openboundary condition, ECMWF ERA5 and the Tidal componant are rovided by the FES2014 global ocean tide atlas (https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-615-2021).

The Pacific Community has made the simulation results available on a web page for both resolution :

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