A Community Terrain-Following Ocean Modeling System

Abstract

The main objective is to produce a tested expert Terrain-following Ocean Modeling System for scientific and operational applications over a wide range of spatial scales from coastal to global. The primary focus is to select the most robust set of options and algorithms for relocatable coastal forecasting systems for the Navy. The system will include state-of-the-art numerical algorithms and subgrid-scale parameterizations, nesting options, adjoint modeling, variational data assimilation schemes, air-sea coupling, interdisciplinary coupled models, extensive web-based documentation and user-support software for model set-up, analysis and diagnostics. The system is intended for massive parallel shared- and distributed-memory architectures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2006
Accession Number
ADA630618

Entities

People

  • Hernan G. Arango

Organizations

  • Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Assimilation
  • California
  • Communities
  • Computer Programming
  • Couplings
  • Equations
  • Geography
  • High Resolution
  • New Brunswick
  • Observation
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceans
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Salinity
  • Terrain Following
  • Websites

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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