Model:Princeton Ocean Model (POM)
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Princeton Ocean Model (POM) Questionnaire
Contact Information
Model: | Princeton Ocean Model (POM) |
Contact person: | Tal Ezer (Project manager) |
Institute: | Old Dominion University |
City: | Norfolk, Virginia |
Country: | USA |
Email: | tezer@odu.edu |
2nd person involved: | Lie-Yauw Oey |
3rd person involved: | -- |
Model description
Model type: | Single model for the marine domain. |
Description: | The Princeton Ocean Model (POM), a simple-to-run yet powerful ocean modeling code that is able to simulate a wide-range of problems: circulation and mixing processes in rivers, estuaries, shelf and slope, lakes, semi-enclosed seas and open and global ocean. POM is a sigma coordinate, free surface ocean model with embedded turbulence and wave sub-models, and wet-dry capability. It has been one of the first coastal ocean models freely available to users, with currently over 3000 users from 70 countries.
For more details see: http://www.aos.princeton.edu/WWWPUBLIC/htdocs.pom/ |
Technical information
Supported platforms: | UNIX, Linux, Windows |
Programming language: | Fortran77, Fortran90 |
Model development started at: | 1982 and is still going on |
To what degree will the model become available: | As source code and as teaching tool |
Current license type: | GPL v2 |
Memory requirements: | -- |
Typical run time: | -- |
Input / Output description
Input parameters: | Topography, temperature, salinity, wind, heat/salt fluxes. Determine by user and application. |
Input format: | ASCII, Binary and netCDF |
Output parameters: | 3D fields of temperature, salinity, velocity, turbulent kinetic energy; 2D fields of surface elevation, vertically averaged velocity, stream function. |
Output format: | ASCII, Binary and netCDF |
Post-processing software (if needed): | Yes, Matlab package and other Fortran routines |
Visualization software (if needed): | Yes, matlab |
Process description
Processes represented by model: | Any 3D ocean circulation, mixing, dispersion processes, etc |
Key physical parameters & equations: | Primitive equations for momentum, heat and salt fluxes, as well as TKE equations. |
Length scale & resolution constraints: | Model used for grid size ranging from ~1m to 1000km |
Time scale & resolution constraints: | CFL condition |
Numerical limitations and issues : | -- |
Testing
Available calibration data sets: | Testing described in various papers (see web page) |
Available test data sets: | -- |
Ideal data for testing: | -- |
User groups
Currently or plans for collaborating with: | There are over 3000 users from 70 countries registered in the POM users data base. |
Documentation
Key papers of the model: | User's guide available from POM web site. |
Is there a manual available: | Yes |
Model website if any: | http://www.aos.princeton.edu/WWWPUBLIC/htdocs.pom/ |
Additional comments
Comments: | Web page includes additional information on code development, annual meetings, applications and searchable data base of over 1000 POM related journal publications. |