Great Meteor Seamount is a submarine giant in the Atlantic Ocean, almost 4000 m high from seafloor to summit. The seamount hosts a rich and diverse fauna including enigmatic species such as sponges and corals and 53 fish species described at the seamount to date. We use the FlexSem ecosystem model system to resolve oceanic motion at sub‐mesoscales far less than 1 km. The model will benefit from a high-resolution bathymetry (50 m) composed of the global GEBCO bathymetry and local multibeam data. At the open boundaries, the model receives input from the basin-scale North Atlantic model VIKING20. We will use our model results to describe and map the physical processes driving food supply to benthic communities, thus providing a direct link to benthic ecology.

The total model area is 116151 km2 and the mean depth is 4220.9 meters. The computational mesh consists of 6347 polygons. The model has 78 layers and a total of 375907 computational cells. The mean element area is 18300 km2 and the spatial resolution range between 894 to 8897 meters.