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Regional Ocean Modeling System:
Central California Coast
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ROMS
The ocean model is based on the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS),
which solves the primitive equations in a coastline- and terrain-
following curvilinear coordinate. A detailed model description can be
found in Shchepetkin and McWilliams (Journal of Geophysical Research,
in press, 2003). The ROMS boundary condition has been documented in
Marchesiello et al. (Ocean Modeling, 3, 1-20, 2001). ROMS was designed
to be a parallel code, which uses 2D partitioning of the model grid
into subdomains that may be assigned to different processors. ROMS can
be run on both shared-memory (OpenMP) and distributed memory (MPI)
machines. An early version of the OpenMP ROMS code can found at
http://marine.rutgers.edu/po/.
ROMS has been intended to be a multi-
purpose, multi-disciplinary oceanic modeling tool. Our current ROMS
configuration contains a ten-compartment ecosystem model developed by
Chai et al. (Journal of Oceanography, in press, 2003).
CCC ROMS
The central California coastal (CCC) ROMS configuration covers the
coastal ocean off the central California with a horizontal resolution
of 5-km and 20 vertical sigma layers.
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