The Persian Gulf is a critically important water body to the world’s economy and understanding oil transport potential hazards. It has numerous industry and urban areas along its length raising interest among researchers, industry and the environmental regulatory community. 

The Persian Gulf is a Mediterranean sea in Western Asia. An extension of the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Oman) through the Strait of Hormuz, it lies between Iran to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula to the southwest. The Shatt al-Arab river delta forms the northwest shoreline (Wikipedia). 

This grid contains 5,861 cells, with an average orthogonal deviation of 0.09 degrees. The grid stretches from Tigris River Delta to Gulf of Oman. This grid was built in multiple stages and joined to together to make one complete grid in EFDC+ Explorer and Grid+.