NCAR-ETA Weather Model
MM5 GoM/GB Model
FVCOM
GoM/GB Model
SST
+
CTD
+
Currents
Winds
Heat flux
NPZD (9 variables) Model
THE SMAST GULF OF MAINE/GEORGES BANK FISHERY MANAGEMENT MODEL
Buoys
+
Satellite
The GLOBEC/Georges Bank Modeling System
Assimilation
IBM
Food limit
•
Real-time tidal forcing (
M
2
, S
2
, N
2
, O
1
, and K
1
)
•
River discharges
•
Scotian
Shelf water
input
•
OBC in the
Atlantic
Ocean ??
Forcings