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DOI: 10.15493/SOMISANA.26032025
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SA-West Hindcast V1.0

The SA-West Hindcast V1.0 product provides a 32 year historical representation of the ocean state for the west coast of South Africa. The model was developed using the Coastal and Regional Ocean COmmunity (CROCO) modelling system. The model curvilinear grid has a variable horizontal grid resolution (1 – 2.5 km) which increases toward the coast. The model has 30 terrain-following (sigma) vertical levels. Open boundary conditions for the model are obtained from GLORYS12V1. Surface forcing is interpolated from ERA5. Model bathymetry is interpolated from digital navigation charts provided by SANHO. This configuration does not include tides. The model configuration files can be found at the somisana-croco github repository using compile options in the `C01` directory in the provided link. NetCDF model output files are available as daily averages throughout the water column, and hourly averages for the surface layer of the model. Subsets of the files can be downloaded via Thredds...

DOI: 10.15493/SOMISANA.23042026
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SA-Southeast Hindcast V1.0

The SA-Southeast Hindcast V1.0 product provides a 10 year historical representation of the ocean state along the southeastern coast of South Africa centered around Algoa Bay. The model was developed using the Coastal and Regional Ocean COmmunity (CROCO) modelling system. The model curvilinear grid has a variable horizontal grid resolution (0.5 – 3 km) which increases toward the coast. The model has 30 terrain-following (sigma) vertical levels. Open boundary conditions for the model are obtained from GLORYS12V1. Surface forcing is interpolated from the 3 km resolution Wind Atlas for South Africa (WASA) product provided by the Climate Systems Analysis Group (CSAG). Model bathymetry is interpolated from digital navigation charts provided by SANHO. This configuration does not include tides. The model configuration files can be found at the somisana-croco github repository using compile options in the `C01` directory in the provided link. NetCDF model output files are available as daily...

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