HYCOM Consortium for Data Assimilative Modeling

Abstract

The goal of the project is to make HYCOM (HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model) a state of the art community ocean model with data assimilation capability of sea surface height from altimetry, sea surface temperature from MCSST and in-situ data. The ultimate goal is to have an eddy-resolving assimilative fully global nowcast/forecast system running in real time that will provide boundary conditions to a variety of higher resolution coastal models. This is a collaborative 5 year (FY00-04) National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP) project between several research groups with Eric Chassignet as the overall lead project PI. The goal is to develop and evaluate HYCOM, a scalable and data assimilative generalized (hybrid) coordinate ocean model. The focus will be on an eddy resolving Atlantic domain (with 7 km resolution at mid latitudes) and a coarser resolution global domain.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA515253

Entities

People

  • Bruce Lunde
  • Ole Martin Smedstad

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assimilation
  • Consortiums
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sets
  • Filters
  • Gulf Stream
  • Height
  • High Resolution
  • Information Science
  • Kalman Filters
  • Latitude
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Observation
  • Oceans
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Statistical Inference
  • Surface Temperature

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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