Wind Over San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta: Forcing for Hydrodynamic Models.

The Ludwig wind model (Ludwig et al., 1991; Ludwig and Sinton, 2000) has been used to generate spaio-temporally varying wind inputs for hydrodynamic models of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta (SFB-Delta) in recent projects at Deltares (Achete et al., 2015), at the United States Geological Survey (USGS; Martyr-Koller et al., 2017), and at San Francisco Esturary Institute (SFEI; Nuss et al., 2018). These projects all utilize hydrodynamic models in the Deltares suite of software known as DFlow (e.g., Deltares, 2019), and the wind inputs to DFlow are specied hourly on a 1.5 km x 1.5 km grid.