126935453Edited by rory.100019666generic_information_pageund1583919654161219814600161219814616112<p>The Shetland&nbsp;model is an implementation of the Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM) and has a domain covering the northern isles of Shetland and Orkney, although Orkney is nowhere near as well resolved as Shetland. The outer boundary extends from approximately 5° W to 0.7° E, and 58.2° to 61.7° N. The model grid is unstructured with the highest horizontal resolution around Shetland, where the node spacing goes down to approximately 30 m. The node spacing is consistently around 30 m along the Shetland coastline rising to around 100 m in St Magnus Bay and to approximately 1 km around the 100 m contour. Away from Shetland towards the open boundary, the grid matches that of the <a href="http://marine.gov.scot/information/wider-domain-scottish-shelf-model">wider Scottish Shelf Model</a>. The water column is resolved using a hybrid sigma layer scheme with 10 standard terrain following sigma layers, each representing 10 % of the water column.</p> <p>The model is still under development and there are currently no long model hindcast or climatological model runs available.</p> filtered_html<p>The Shetland model is an implementation of the Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM) and has a domain covering the northern isles of Shetland and Orkney, although Orkney is nowhere near as well resolved as Shetland. The outer boundary extends from approximately 5° W to 0.7° E, and 58.2° to 61.7° N. The model grid is unstructured with the highest horizontal resolution around Shetland, where the node spacing goes down to approximately 30 m. The node spacing is consistently around 30 m along the Shetland coastline rising to around 100 m in St Magnus Bay and to approximately 1 km around the 100 m contour. Away from Shetland towards the open boundary, the grid matches that of the <a href="http://marine.gov.scot/information/wider-domain-scottish-shelf-model">wider Scottish Shelf Model</a>. The water column is resolved using a hybrid sigma layer scheme with 10 standard terrain following sigma layers, each representing 10 % of the water column.</p> <p>The model is still under development and there are currently no long model hindcast or climatological model runs available.</p> 155954453The model domain and node spacing of the Shetland modelpublic://ssm_shetland_node_spacing.pngimage/png27006311583919635imageThe model domain and node spacing of the Shetland modelThe model domain and node spacing of the Shetland model<_drafty_revision_requested>FIELD_LOAD_CURRENT18008008008001964sioc:Itemfoaf:Documentdc:datedc:createdxsd:dateTimedate_iso8601dc:modifiedxsd:dateTimedate_iso8601content:encodedsioc:has_creatorrelfoaf:namesioc:num_repliesxsd:integersioc:last_activity_datexsd:dateTimedate_iso8601https://marine.gov.scot/?q=information/shetland-modelrory0a:6:{s:16:"ckeditor_default";s:1:"t";s:20:"ckeditor_show_toggle";s:1:"t";s:14:"ckeditor_width";s:4:"100%";s:13:"ckeditor_lang";s:2:"en";s:18:"ckeditor_auto_lang";s:1:"t";s:7:"overlay";i:1;}12119212693519666needs_reviewpublished16112161219814611161219814612119212693519666needs_reviewpublished16112161219814611161219814612119212693519666needs_reviewpublished161121612198146111612198146