3. Datasets available to download

To prepare surface and boundary conditions from climatological datasets you can use datasets from CROCO website: https://www.croco-ocean.org/download/

These datasets contain the following products :

CARS2009	CSIRO Atlas of Regional Seas database. Annual, seasonal and monthly climatology for temperature, salinity, nitrate, phosphate and oxygen
COADS05	Directory of the surface fluxes global monthly climatology at resolution (Da Silva et al., 1994)
GSHHS	A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database [Wessel and Smith, 1996]. Original data can be found at https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/
GOT99.2	Atlas of the loading tide for M2 S2 N2 K2 K1 O1 P1 Q1
QuikSCAT_clim	QuickSCAT monthly climatology of wind stress
RUNOFF_DAI	River discharge monthly climatology in \(m.s^{-3}\) for the 925 largest rivers reaching the ocean (from Dai en Trenberth, 2000)
SST_pathfinder	SST global monthly climatology at a finer resolution (9.28 km) than COADS05, computed from AVHRR-Pathfinder observations from 1985 to 1997 [Casey and Cornillon, 1999]
SeaWifs	Surface chlorophyll-a climatology based on SeaWifs observations
TPX07	Directory of the global model of ocean tides TPXO7 [Egbert and Erofeeva, 2002]
Topo	Location of the global topography dataset at 2° resolution [Smith and Sandwell, 1997]. Original data can be found at: http://topex.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/get_data.cgi
WOA2009	World Ocean Atlas 2009 global datase References list: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOA09/pubwoa09.html
WOAPISCES	A global dataset for biogeochemical PISCES data (annual and seasonal climatology). References are : Fe and DOC : Aumont and Bopp [2006] Si, O2, NO3, PO4 from WOA2005, DIC and Alkalinity come from Goyet et al.