A Community Terrain-Following Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)

Abstract

The long-term technical goal is to develop and maintain a Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) for high-resolution scientific and operational applications. Our aim is to produce an open-source, terrain-following, ocean community model for regional nowcasting and forecasting that includes advanced data assimilation, ensemble prediction, and analysis tools for adaptive sampling and circulation dynamics/stability/sensitivity, which is highly relevant to ONR objectives. This project will improve the ocean modeling capabilities of the U.S. Navy for relocatable, coastal, coupled atmosphere-ocean forecasting applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2015
Accession Number
AD1014360

Entities

People

  • Hernan G. Arango

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Assimilation
  • Atmospheres
  • California
  • Communities
  • Delaware Bay
  • Delphi Method
  • Dynamics
  • High Resolution
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Oceans
  • Sensitivity
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Surface Temperature
  • Terrain
  • Terrain Following
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers