Development of Community Terrain-following Ocean Modeling System (TOMS)


2001 Users' Workshop, Boulder, CO, August 20-22 (pdf)

2001 TOMS Inaugural Meeting, Boulder, CO, August 23

Purpose: An initiative to develop, evaluate, test and provide support to the terrain-following (sigma) ocean modeling community. This is a collaborative effort between two groups of community ocean models originated from Princeton and Rutgers Universities, and now in use by almost 1000 users worldwide. This web site will provide useful resources for the ocean modeling community, including supporting analysis codes, data assimilation, and updates on the future modeling system now under development.

TOMS Presentation, Feb. 2001 (ppt)

Acknowledgements: This effort is supported by ONR, Ocean Modeling Program. Past and present model developments rely on important contributions from other institutions (e.g., Dynalysis, HydroQual & NRL for Princeton and UCLA for Rutgers).

Contact: Tal Ezer or Hernan Arango .

1. MODELS

PRINCETON

MODEL

Reference

Availability

Standard sigma-coordinates Princeton Ocean Model (POM)

Blumberg & Mellor (1987), Mellor (1996)

POM web page

Generalized Vertical Coordinate Model (POMgcs)

Mellor, Hakkinen, Ezer & Patchen (2000)

Coming soon

Parallel Ocean Models (POMmpi , POMhpf)

Oberpriller, Sawdey, O'Keefe & Gao (1998), (HPF from NRL)

Coming soon

Non-Boussinesq Ocean Model (POMnb)

Mellor & Ezer (1995)

Uppon request

Estuarine, Coastal & Ocean Model, Semi-Implicit (ECOM-SI)

Blumberg, Signell & Jenter (1993)

Commercial version, contact USGS or HydroQual

Complete list of POM publications

RUTGERS

MODEL

Reference

Availability

Semi-spectral (or S-coord.) Primitive Equation Model (SPEM)

Haidvogel et al., (1991)

RU web page

S-Coordinated Rutgers Model (SCRUM)

Song and Haidvogel (1994)

RU web page

Spectral Elements Ocean Model (SEOM)

Iskandarani, Haidvovel and Boyd (1995)

RU web page

Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)

Haidvogel et al. (2000), Shchepetkin and McWilliams (2000)

RU web page

beta-test version available uppon request

Next generation Terrain-Following Ocean Modeling System

Under collaborative development




OTHER OCEAN MODELS: MOM (GFDL), MICOM (RSMAS), FRAM (UK), QUODDY (Dartmouth), HOPE (Hamburg), NLOM (NRL)

MODEL TESTING AND EVALUATION

Studies of Pressure Gradient Errors

Coming soon:

2. DATA SOURCES

3. ANALYSIS AND GRAPHIC TOOLS

4. DATA ASSIMILATION