README.md

Bay_of_Fundy

Assorted code from 2021 internship for simulated and observational drifter data extraction and analysis.

Module Library

Data Extraction/Visualizations

drifter_functions_2021.py

• Information: A collection of functions to extract observational drifter data from ERDDAP, plot the drifter on googlemaps and basemap.
• Example Output(s):
  • Drifter Releases from 1988-2019 in Bay of Fundy

FVCOM_uvmodel.py

• Information: A collection of functions for visualizing FVCOM velocity fields, with tidal inputs and detided.
• Example Output(s):
  • FVCOM velocity field with tides (May 06-15 2016)

Or you could detide the data

• FVCOM velocity field detided (May 01-15 2016)

• Subsurface currents not pictured

ROMS_uvmodel.py

• Information: Inspired by PICO github, uvmodel.py and Rich Signell's blog. Still working on binned and detided data processing.
  • ROMS COAWST Surface Current Gulf of Maine

Zoom into our area of interest

• ROMS COAWST Surface Current Bay of Fundy

• Detided plots coming soon

Simulated Drifters

particle_tracking_routine

• Information: Using code from oceanparcels ipynb examples as posted on oceanparcels github. Solved with Runge-Kutta4 advection scheme.
  • DOPPIO Simulated Particles in BoF Gyre, May 2018

What if we increase the number of particles? (sensitivity analysis coming soon)

• DOPPIO Simulated Particles in BoF Gyre, May 2018

observed_vs_simulated

• Information: By advecting a particle in OceanParcels (RK4) and plotting the trajectory against an observed drifter released at the same lcoation over the same time period, generate this graph
  • DOPPIO Simulated particle vs observed drifter

Now, if we want to look at the separation distance (haversine) between those observed and simulated drifters (common model evalutation metric) for the first 72 hours:

Data Analysis/Statistics

• Coming soon:
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Separation distances (normalized)
  • Other Lagrangian Statistics
  • Forcing mechanisms
  • Additional plots
  • and more!