[ecco-support] [EXTERNAL] ECCO Darwin forcing data

[Samar Khatiwala]

Hi Hong,

Ahh, I see. I will switch to v05 then. Thanks for the quick and helpful
reply!

Best,

Samar

On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 2:22 AM Zhang, Hong (US 321D) <
hong.zhang at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

>
>
> On Feb 17, 2026, at 2:04 AM, Samar Khatiwala <samkat6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear ECCO Team,
>
> I'm trying to setup ECCO Darwin following the instructions at
> https://github.com/MITgcm-contrib/ecco_darwin/blob/master/v06/1deg/readme_darwin_v4r5.txt
> <https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/MITgcm-contrib/ecco_darwin/blob/master/v06/1deg/readme_darwin_v4r5.txt__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!NLLVz0a3sOSlHEyU46Gxi2xaeu0ZlXnOGYtN18R9aYhF018zOZPnUH8J7_7pUcnOL0xfa5YSG50L1LzF8XUNBw$>
> and could not find all the requited data on ECCO Drive. I was hoping you
> might be able to provide the missing files.
>
> Specifically, while I managed to find input_bin, TBADJ and various other
> data related to the physical model, I could not find data related to
> biogeochemistry that are referred to in the data* files. This includes the
> iron flux
> (CESM-MIMI_1980-2015_CAM4-6MEAN_MonthlyDep_Hamiltonetal2020_clim.R4_144x96x12.bin)
> and files related to oasim.
>
>
> Hi Samar,
> I’d suggest you run Darwin v05 which is optimized/published;
> While the link you listed above is for Darwin v06 which is still in
> optimization.
> Darwin v05 starts here
> [image: 0f901400-7a59-11ea-8ca3-cb01169f13c1.png]
>
> ecco_darwin/v05/1deg/readme_darwin_v4r5.txt at
> 14e871ec906a23ab280cac34c71e8b17a131a929 · MITgcm-contrib/ecco_darwin
> <https://github.com/MITgcm-contrib/ecco_darwin/blob/14e871ec906a23ab280cac34c71e8b17a131a929/v05/1deg/readme_darwin_v4r5.txt#L59>
> github.com
> <https://github.com/MITgcm-contrib/ecco_darwin/blob/14e871ec906a23ab280cac34c71e8b17a131a929/v05/1deg/readme_darwin_v4r5.txt#L59>
>
> <https://github.com/MITgcm-contrib/ecco_darwin/blob/14e871ec906a23ab280cac34c71e8b17a131a929/v05/1deg/readme_darwin_v4r5.txt#L59>
>
> and associated files are complete on ECCO Drive
> ECCO Drive <https://ecco.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/ECCO2/LLC90/Release5>
> jpl.nasa.gov <https://ecco.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/ECCO2/LLC90/Release5>
> [image: favicon.ico]
> <https://ecco.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/ECCO2/LLC90/Release5>
> <https://ecco.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/ECCO2/LLC90/Release5>
>
> best
> Hong
>
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