Modelling of marine currents in Cuban waters: A case study

This paper tries to review and represent the earlier work about simulating the streams in Batabano Bay in Cuban waters. The simulation operating system, SIMulation of Currents (SIMCO), is a part of a method to predict sea flows into Cuban shelf. This method is set up on a lineal model. Batabano Gulf is a nearly enclosed shallow water area with smooth bottom, with a surface of 20850 km² and its average depth is around 6m. In this paper the outcomes of such an assessment of the application of SIMCO to Gulf of Batabano and its flows are compared. SIMCO is a suitable model to analyze the water currents of the gulf. When SIMCO run with the horizontal resolution of 2min, the overestimation mean error is equal to 3.8cm/s for the south borderline of gulf and the overestimation errors reduces when the horizontal resolution increases.