Dartmouth Circulation Models for the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank

Current Projects

• South Atlantic Bight - NOPP
• Georges Bank - GLOBEC Phase III
• Irish Shelf Seas Project
• Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB)
• Great Bay Estuary

Gulf of Maine/Climatological User's Group

• Interactive Page - Drifter Simulation in the Gulf of Maine. Track the trajectory of a drifter in the Gulf of Maine by creating a set of simulation variables and selecting a drifter starting location.

Gulf of Maine/GLOBEC Public Archives

• Data

• Software

• Publications

  Laboratory Reports

  Refereed Contributions (Partial Archive)

• Data File Standards: NML-99-1

Circulation Studies and Model Results

• Overviews

  • Modeling the Gulf of Maine: Gulf of Maine NEWS, RARGOM, Summer 1995.

  • Overview(1995)

• GLOBEC - Georges Bank

  • Hindcasting the Georges Bank Circulation(1997 GRC Poster Presentation)

  • US Globec Progress Report 9/95: Importance of Physical and Biological Processes to Population Regulation of Cod and Haddock on Georges Bank: A Model-Based Study

  • Trophodynamic and advective influences on Georges Bank cod and haddock

  • In-Situ Population Dynamics of Calanus finmarchicus (Poster presented at the RARGOM Gulf of Maine Symposium, St. Andrews, NB, 1996)

  • Real-Time Data Assimilation on Georges Bank, D.R. Lynch et al. Poster presentation Fall 1999.

  • Cumulative Summary of GLOBEC Publications

• Gulf of Maine and the Maine Coastal Current

  • Modeling Realistic Events of the Maine Coastal Current,M.J. Holboke
    Fifth International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Alexandria, VA, USA ASCE, 22-24 October, 1997

  • Transport Pathways of the Maine Coastal Current (Poster presented at the RARGOM Gulf of Maine Symposium, St. Andrews, NB, 1996)
    • .pdf
    • .html

  • Simulations of the Maine Coastal Current, ASCE Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, San Diego, October 1995. (PDF version ; Postscript version )
    • Appendix: Animations of Time-Variable Wind Response

  • Dynamical Influences on the Maine Coastal Current
    • Revised August 1995 (.html)
    • Figures Only(.html)
    • Continental Shelf Research 17(6):605-634 (1997)(.pdf)

  • Stellwagen Bank: Climatological Circulation Features. Heather Wakeley, Juliana Garzon. Assisted by Craig Lewis and Justin Ip. November 1998.

• Estuarine Circulation

  • Simulation of Estuarine Flooding and Dewatering with a Fixed-Boundary Finite-Element Grid. J. Ip and D. Lynch, 1998.

  • Great Bay Model Development

• Coupled Biological/Physical Modeling

  • Biophysical Simulations of Calanus finmarchicus Population Dynamics in the Gulf of Maine. D. Lynch, W. Gentleman, D. McGillicuddy, C. Davis. AGU-ASLO Meeting, San Diego, Feb. 1998. Paper #CM 1997/T:44

  • Can Georges Bank Cod Survive on a Calanoid Diet? Daniel R. Lynch, Craig V. Lewis, Francisco E. Werner. Prepared for Deep Sea Research Special GLOBEC-Georges Bank Issue

  • Coupling of an Individual-Based Population Dynamic Model of Calanus finmarchicus to a Circulation Model for the Georges Bank Region. Charles B. Miller, Daniel R. Lynch, Francois Carlotti, Wendy C. Gentleman, and Craig V. W. Lewis; September 1998.

  • Modeling the Transport of Larval Lobsters in the Gulf of Maine. Lewis Inzce and Christopher Naimie. Poster Presented at International GLOBEC Open Science Meeting in June 1998. (Postscript version)

  • Calanus finmarchicus: THE MOVIE. W. Morse and C. Meise, November 1998.

  • Can Georges Bank larval cod survive on a calanoid diet? D.R. Lynch, C.V. Lewis (Presentor), F.E. Werner. Presented at the Trans-Atalantic Studies of Calanus meeting in Tromso, Norway, August 24-27, 1999

  • Preliminary Findings for Study of Circulation Patterns around Blue Mussel Study Sites, John W. McLaughlin. December 21, 1999.

  • Modeling wind and tidal forcing of plankton transport over Georges Bank during winters of 1968-93, Craig V. Lewis, February 1 2000. Presented at the AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

  • Effect of Area Closures on Georges Bank Bivalves: Larval Transport and Population Dynamics C. V.W. Lewis (Dartmouth), D. R. Lynch (Dartmouth), M. J. Fogarty (Chesapeake Biological Laboratory), and D. Mountain (NMFS - Woods Hole). June 8, 2000

Further Information

REDIMS: Gulf of Maine Research Environmental Data and Information Management System

Irish Shelf Seas Project

GLOBEC - Georges Bank

Great Bay Estuary Project

Yellow Sea Project

South Atlantic Bight Project (SABSOON)

QUODDY Users' Group

Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine

Numerical Methods Lab at Dartmouth