A Rapidly Relocatable Version of POM
Germana Peggion (USM)
University of Southern Mississippi
Daniel N. Fox
Naval Research Lab
NRLPOM is a version of the Princeton Ocean Model (POM) that has been
implemented at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for nowcasting and
short-term (2-day) forecasting in support of real-time naval
applications. The model is rapidly relocatable from deep to shallow,
from open sea to inlets.
NRLPOM principal attributes are a user-friendly interface, the inclusion
of tidal flow, and the option for several initialization procedures
(warm, cold, diagnostic and combination) and boundary conditions algorithms.
The system also has the capability of 1-way coupling with other real-time
operational models or 1-way nesting (NRLPOM to NRLPOM). The boundary
condition algorithms and the coupling/nesting procedure are robust and allow
more accurate solutions for the inner high-resolution coastal domains.
The system has been designed to provide good solutions everywhere,
rather than the best solution for a given problem on a given geographical
region. We will discuss the main issues connected with this approach and
the skill and limits of the relocatable model, while presenting the
results from real-time exercises.