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Joint CSDMS-SEN annual meeting 2016: Capturing Climate Change
Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS): An introductory web-based model implementation
Abstract
Participants in this clinic will learn how to run a Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) test case for an idealized continental shelf model domain within the CSDMS Web Modeling Toolkit (WMT). The model implementation that we will use includes wave forcing, a riverine source, suspended sediment transport.
ROMS is an open source, three-dimensional primitive equation hydrodynamic ocean model that uses a structured curvilinear horizontal grid and a stretched terrain following vertical grid. For more information see https://www.myroms.org. It currently has more than 4,000 registered users, and the full model includes modules for sediment transport and biogeochemistry, and several options for turbulence closures and numerical schemes. In part because ROMS was designed to provide flexibility for the choice of model parameterizations and processes, and to run in parallel, implementing the code can seem daunting, but in this clinic, we will present an idealized ROMS model that can be run on the CSDMS cluster via the WMT. One goal is to provide a relatively easy introduction to the numerical modeling process that can be used within upper level undergraduate and graduate classes to explore sediment transport on continental shelves.
As a group, we will run an idealized ROMS model on the CSDMS computer, Beach. The group will choose a modification to the standard model. While the modified model runs, we will explore methods for visualizing model output. Participants who have access to WMT can run the model themselves. Clinic participants who have access to Matlab and/or Panoply will be able to browse model output files during the clinic.
Following the clinic, participants should have access to an example ROMS model run, experience running ROMS within the WMT and with ROMS input and output files, and. ROMS lesson plans.
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