Fvcom model user manual

In collaboration with scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHOI , we are building an integrated high-resolution model system that is capable of hindcasts, nowcasts, and forecasts of circulation and key ecosystem processes in coastal oceans and estuaries. The major components of this system include: 1 a meso-scale meteorological model, 2 FVCOM, 3 a sediment model based on the Community Sediment Transport Model, 4 a generalized lower trophic level food web model, 5 multi-stage zooplankton models, and 6 the EPA-standard water quality model.

A GUI has been developed for system operation and post-processing. In collaboration with scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT , we have implemented both ensemble and reduced Kalman filters into FVCOM to build a model-based observing and prediction coastal ocean system. MEDML is a high-performance computational center for ocean modeling equipped with a super performance Linux cluster. This multiprocessing computing facility has extended the research interests of MEDML to the global ocean.

MEDML welcomes applications for graduate study from talented students in the fields of physical oceanography, biology, and fishery science. Dupont , 7 a 3-D sediment transport module based on the U. FBM includes seven groups: nutrients, autotrophy, heterotrophy, detritus, dissolved organic matter, bacteria, and other.

FVCOM was originally coded for sigma-coordinates in the vertical and now has been upgraded to a generalized terrian-following coordinate system with choices of various topographic-following coordinates. FVCOM is an open source code ocean community model that always welcomes new users. This program is only permitted for use in non-commercial academic research and education.

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