Scottish Shelf Model - East Coast Lewis and Harris

The East Coast of Lewis and Harris (ECLH) model is an implementation of the Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM) and has a domain covering the whole of the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, and the north-west coast of Scotland. The model is part of the Scottish Shelf Model (SSM) suite of hydrodynamic models and can be forced independently or nested within the wider SSM. The model grid is unstructured with the highest horizontal resolution along most of the east coast of Lewis, where the node spacing is as small as 40 m but more typically 100 – 200 m. In the east of the domain, the north-west coast of Scotland, the node spacing is typically around 500 m. At the open boundary, the node spacing is approximately 3 km. The water column is resolved by 10 terrain following sigma layers, each representing 10% of the water column.