Model:FVCOM

Contact

Name	Changsheng Chen
Type of contact	Model developer
Institute / Organization	University of Massachusetts
Postal address 1	706 South Rodney French Blvd
Postal address 2
Town / City	Dartmouth
Postal code	02744
State	Massachusetts
Country	USA"USA" is not in the list (Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, ...) of allowed values for the "Country" property.
Email address	c1chen@umassd.edu
Phone	508-910-6388
Fax	(508) 910-6371

Name	Robert Beardsley
Type of contact	Model developer
Institute / Organization	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Postal address 1
Postal address 2
Town / City	Woods Hole
Postal code	02543
State
Country	USA"USA" is not in the list (Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, ...) of allowed values for the "Additional country" property.
Email address	rbeardsley@whoi.edu
Phone	+1 508 289 2536
Fax	+1 508 457 2181

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FVCOM

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Summary Also known as Model type Modular Model part of larger framework Note on status model Date note status model physical oceanography, Technical specs Supported platforms Linux Other platform Programming language Fortran90 Other program language Code optimized Single Processor, Parallel Computing"Parallel </br>Computing" is not in the list (Single Processor, Multiple Processors) of allowed values for the "Code optimized" property. Multiple processors implemented Nr of distributed processors Nr of shared processors Start year development 2001 Does model development still take place? Yes If above answer is no, provide end year model development Code development status When did you indicate the 'code development status'? Model availability As code Source code availability (Or provide future intension) Through web repository Source web address http://fvcom.smast.umassd.edu/FVCOM/Source/code.htm Source csdms web address Program license type Other Program license type other FVCOM End User License Agreement University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth Memory requirements -- Typical run time -- In/Output Describe input parameters Tides, Winds, Heat flux, Preccipitation/Evaporation, River discharges, Groundwater, O.B. fluxes Input format ASCII, Binary Other input format Describe output parameters -- Output format Binary Other output format NetCDF Pre-processing software needed? No Describe pre-processing software Post-processing software needed? Yes Describe post-processing software GUI Post-process tools Visualization software needed? Yes If above answer is yes Other visualization software Visit Process Describe processes represented by the model The present version of FVCOM includes a number of options and components as shown in Figure above. These include: choice of Cartesian or spherical coordinate system, a mass-conservative wet/dry point treatment for the flooding/drying process simulation, the General Ocean Turbulent Model (GOTM) modules (Burchard et al., 1999; Burchard, 2002) for optional vertical turbulent mixing schemes, a water quality module to simulate dissolved oxygen and other environmental indicators, 4-D nudging and Reduced/Ensemble Kalman Filters (implemented in collaboration with P. Rizzoli at MIT) for data assimilation, fully-nonlinear ice models (implemented by F. Dupont), a 3-D sediment transport module (based on the U.S.G.S. national sediment transport model) for estuarine and near-shore applications, and a flexible biological module (FBM) for food web dynamics study. FBM includes seven groups: nutrients, autotrophy, heterotrophy, detritus, dissolved organic matter, bacteria, and other. With various pre-built functions and parameters for these groups, GBM allows users to either select a pre-built biological model (such as NPZ, NPZD, etc.) or to build their own biological model using the pre-defined pool of biological variables and parameterization functions. Describe key physical parameters and equations Describe length scale and resolution constraints -- Describe time scale and resolution constraints -- Describe any numerical limitations and issues -- Testing Describe available calibration data sets FVCOM was originally developed for the estuarine flooding/drying process in estuaries and the tidal-, buoyancy- and wind-driven circulation in the coastal region featured with complex irregular geometry and steep bottom topography. This model has been upgraded to the spherical coordinate system for basin and global applications. A non-hydrostatic version of FVCOM has been coded and is being tested. See also website for model validations. Upload calibration data sets if available: Describe available test data sets -- Upload test data sets if available: Describe ideal data for testing -- Other Do you have current or future plans for collaborating with other researchers? -- Is there a manual available? Yes Upload manual if available: Model website if any http://fvcom.smast.umassd.edu/FVCOM/index.html Model forum / discussion board http://foros.dgeo.udec.cl/fvcom/ Comments 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. Users are required to register in orde to receive the source codes, demo examples, and user manuals as well as some recommended postprocessing tools. Introduction History Papers Issues Help Input Files Output Files Download Source