Water Circulation, Sediment Transport, and Pollutant Dynamics in Southern Iberia Waters: A Review on Numerical Modelling Studies

Table 1

Summary of hydrodynamic model characteristics.

	2D model	2-layer model	3D model
Domain	GoC, AS	AS	GoC
Objective	tides	Mean circulation	Mean circulation
Spatial resolution	2 minutes^a	2 minutes^a	2 minutes^a
Features	Barotropic	2 water layers with constant density	Hydrostatic, Boussinesq
	Depth-averaged		Baroclinic
	𝑀2, 𝑆2 constituents		Equations for 𝑇 and 𝑆
Forcing	Tidal analysis		1-equation turbulence model
	Tide amplitude and phase	Water exchanges through	Water exchanges through
	along open boundaries	Gibraltar Strait	Gibraltar Strait and 𝑇, 𝑆 from climatology
Forcing data source	[47, 48]	[20]	[20]
	[28]		WOA05 climatology^b
Additional boundary condition where required	Radiation^c	Radiation^c	Radiation^c

^aIn both longitude and latitude.
^bWorld Ocean Atlas 2005, National Ocean and Atmosphere Administration, available online. Seasonal values have been used for climatology and wind stress.
^cSee [49].