• Horizontal grid: 1/12º equatorial resolution (2294 x 1362
grid points, ~6.5 km spacing on
average)
• 20ºS to 65.8ºN
•
• 20 vertical
coordinates
•
• Bathymetry: Quality
controlled ETOP05
•
• Surface forcing:
(wind stress, wind speed, heat flux [using
bulk formula], E-P + relaxation to
climatological SSS)
• River runoff
•
• Buffer zone: ~3º band along
southern and eastern boundary
with relaxation to
monthly climatological T and S
• Closed boundaries along 20ºS, in the
Indonesian
throughflow region
and in the Bering Strait