Dr Adam S. Candy
Dr Adam S. Candy
PhD (Imperial)
MA MMath (Cambridge)

Mathematical Physicist in Computational Geoscience, Ocean Energy, Geophysical Environmental Fluid Dynamics and Physical Oceanography

Caribbean Watch: Jamaica

This page contains current ocean conditions in the Caribbean Sea, focusing on Jamaica, inferred from the Mercator Ocean reanalysis dataset.

Physical oceanographic conditions in the Caribbean Sea are considered. Here we use a combination of data from Mercator Ocean and a state-of-the-art, fine-scale hydrodynamic model of the full Caribbean Sea region using ADCIRC. The former is an operational 1/12º global ocean physics and analysis data set. This assimilates data using the NEMO ocean model (version 3.1, at a horizontal spatial resolution of 1/12º, 3-9 km) from various sources, including satellite and shipboard observations, to give the best, continuous approximation of ocean behaviour in space and time, over the period 2007-2017.

Annual review for 2016

Animations of the daily mean surface currents of the regional Caribbean Sea surrounding Jamaica and its coastal waters in the year 2016. Each block shows a month, with Jan, Feb, Mar across the top, then Apr-Jun in the second row, Jul-Sep in the third and Oct-Dec across the bottom. Frames move through days of the month. Velocity data is from the Mercator operational 1/12º global ocean physics and analysis data set (Mercator Ocean, 2017). Bathymetry and coastlines determined from GEBCO (2014). To identify the location of submerged atolls, notably Pedro Bank and Formigas Bank, a red line marks the 100m depth contour.

Annual review for 2016

Animations of the daily mean surface currents of the regional Caribbean Sea surrounding Jamaica and its coastal waters in the year 2016.

Regional Caribbean Sea surrounding Curaçao

Daily mean surface currents of the regional Caribbean Sea surrounding Jamaica for 2016. Each block shows a month, with Jan, Feb, Mar across the top, then Apr-Jun in the second row, Jul-Sep in the third and Oct-Dec across the bottom. Frames move through days of the month. Velocity data is from the Mercator operational 1/12º global ocean physics and analysis data set (Mercator Ocean, 2017). Bathymetry and coastlines determined from GEBCO (2014). To identify the location of submerged atolls, notably Pedro Bank and Formigas Bank, a red line marks the 100m depth contour. Available to download here.

Coastal waters surrounding Curaçao

Daily mean surface currents of the coastal waters surrounding Jamaica for 2016. Each block shows a month, with Jan, Feb, Mar across the top, then Apr-Jun in the second row, Jul-Sep in the third and Oct-Dec across the bottom. Frames move through days of the month. Velocity data is from the Mercator operational 1/12º global ocean physics and analysis data set (Mercator Ocean, 2017). Bathymetry and coastlines determined from GEBCO (2014). To identify the location of submerged atolls, notably Pedro Bank and Formigas Bank, a red line marks the 100m depth contour. Available to download here.

Daily mean surface currents of the regional Caribbean Sea surrounding Jamaica and its coastal waters in the year 2016, at figshare: DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.5493163.v1.