Development and Testing of Embedded Gridding Within the Regional Ocean Modeling System: Interaction Between Near-Shore Off-Shore Currents and Material Properties
Abstract
The goals of the project are to (1) improve algorithms for computational modeling of local oceanic regions that have significant interactions with their surrounding regions and (2) simulate and understand the controlling processes for dynamical coupling and material exchanges between near-shore regions over continental shelves and adjacent off-shore regions. This is done by (1) continuing the development of the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) with respect to its hydrodynamic algorithms, physical transport parameterizations, and range of biogeochemical processes; (2) further refining of ROMS nesting capabilities using adaptive open-boundary conditions for imposing large-scale boundary data; (3) developing multi-level, multi-grid embedding capability for ROMS for simultaneously calculating solutions on coarse and fine resolution grids; (4) using ROMS to investigate dynamical coupling and material transport between near and far shores of the North American West Coast (Monterey Bay, Southern California Bight and the GLOBEC NE Pacific region off Oregon and North California); and (5) using ROMS to investigate the response of the study region to remote forcing in the Pacific basin and the influence of the coastal phenomena (e.g., upwelling) on Pacific basin-scale phenomena.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 15, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA412004
Entities
People
- James C. McWilliams
Organizations
- University of California, Los Angeles