These are static KML files which have contain NO hydrodynamic/thermodynamic/ice data. They are intended to be used *in conjunction* with the FVCOM netCDF output to visualize the data. See the R examples in the NOAA GLERL code gallery for example usage: https://noaa-glerl.github.io/intro.html The files represent the FVCOM grids as follows: - "nodes" the vertices of the grid (spatialPoints) - "elems" the elements/cells of the grid (spatialPolygons) - "voronoi" the voronoi/theissen polygons corresponding to the nodes (useful for plotting heat maps of scalar data stored on nodes)