The Scottish Shelf Waters Reanalysis Service

A 27-year physical reanalysis for the North West European Shelf

This service is generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information

Northwest Atlantic

European Sea   

Marine Food 

Natural Resources

Energy

Description of the service

The Scottish Shelf Waters Reanalysis Service (SSW-RS) provides a 27-year physical reanalysis of the Scottish Shelf Model. This is a downstream service of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service, also called the Copernicus Marine Service. The Scottish Shelf Waters Reanalysis Service provides hindcast model runs from 1993 to 2019 including hourly horizontal currents and water elevation fields and daily mean fields of three-dimensional currents, temperature and salinity on the unstructured model mesh. Current users of the service include Scottish public bodies responsible for marine environmental regulation, industry and academia. 

The Scottish Shelf Model

The Scottish Shelf Model is a hydrodynamic model covering the Scottish continental shelf waters. The Scottish Shelf Model implements the Finite Volume Community Ocean Model which utilises an unstructured computational grid enabling the model to resolve many small scale coastal features. The horizontal resolution ranges from 1 km at the coast to 20 km at the outer boundary. To find out more about the Scottish Shelf Model please visit the Scottish Shelf Model website.


Version 3.02 release notes

Barton, B., De Dominicis, M., O'Hara Murray, R., Campbell, L. 2022. Scottish Shelf Model 3.02 - 27 Year Reanalysis. doi: https://doi.org/10.7489/12423-1

Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service Products

The Scottish Shelf Waters Reanalysis Service is forced, at the open boundary, with products from the Copernicus Marine Service:

The service uses data assimilation also provided by the Copernicus Marine Service products: 

Copernicus Marine Service data are used in addition to open boundary forcing and sea surface temperature data assimilation, for calibration and validation of this service: 

Conditions of use and accessibility

The Scottish Shelf Waters Reanalysis Service data is available under the Open Government Licence for public sector information. The Open Government is a copyright licence for Crown Copyright works published by the UK government. It is compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence. The users will be free to:

The user must acknowledge the source of the Information in their product or application by including or linking to any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence

The SSW-RS should be cited as:

Barton, B., De Dominicis, M., O'Hara Murray, R., Campbell, L. 2022. Scottish Shelf Model 3.02 - 27 Year Reanalysis. doi: https://doi.org/10.7489/12423-1

To access the data, follow the link below which will take you to a licence agreement. After submitting the form you will be contacted via email about how to access the data. We aim to respond within 7 working days.