Terrain-Following Ocean Modeling System (TOMS):
Technical Overview and Status
Hernan G. Arango
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
Tal Ezer
Princeton University
Alexander F. Shchepetkin
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA
An Overview of an ongoing effort to develop a new generation
Terrain-following Ocean Modeling System (TOMS) for scientific
and operational applications over a wide range of scales from
Global to sub-mesoscale will be presented. The current work
is part of an expanding collaborative effort involving several
groups around the US including theoreticians, developers,
testers, and users.
TOMS will include state-of-the-art numerical algorithms and
sub grid-scale parameterizations, nesting options, advanced
data assimilation schemes, an interface for coupling with
atmospheric forecasting models, extensive web-based documentation
and users-support software for model set-up, analysis and
diagnostics. The system is intended for massive parallel
shared- and distributed-memory architectures.