Welcome to the Community Sediment-Transport Modeling System Project (CSTMS)

The goal of this project has been to produce an open-source model that couples hydrodynamics (circulation and waves), sediment transport, and morphodynamics. The model is suitable for realistic and useful simulations of processes that influence sediment transport in the coastal ocean, including estuaries, nearshore regions, and the continental shelf over regional length scales (10’s of meters to 100’s of kilometers) and time scales ranging from transport events to years. We built this capability around the ROMS hydrodynamic modeling system, and completed some work toward modularizing the system components via the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF). The portion of this project that was funded by the National Oceanographic Partnership Project (NOPP) ended in September 2009. However, the ROMS/TOM group, led by Hernan Arango at Rutgers University, and the USGS (led by John Warner in Woods Hole) will continue to maintain and improve the ROMS code.

Is This the Right Place?

• You are at: https://www.myroms.org/projects/cstm/ CSTMS Wiki/TRAC/SVN Site (Repository for CSTMS developers; code in trunk currently mirrors the official ROMS site, but it also has branches for CSTMS project participants)
• See also: ​https://www.myroms.org/projects/src/ Official ROMS Wiki/TRAC/SVN Site (Official repository for ROMS code; submit bug reports for ROMS and CSTMS code here)
• Or: ​https://www.myroms.org/wiki/index.php/Documentation_Portal ROMS Documentation (including CSTMS sediment-transport routines)
• Or: ​https://www.myroms.org/forum/ ROMS/TOMS Ocean Modeling Discussion Forum (queries and advice)
• Or: ​http://www.ocean-modeling.org/ General ocean modeling web site
• Or even: ​https://www.hosted-projects.com/trac/cmgsoft/m_cmg/wiki Publicly available Matlab .m files from the USGS.

License and Disclaimer

ROMS is copyright (c) 2002-2010 by The ROMS/TOMS Group. Please read the license text. Any contributions to this website (code or documentation) confer membership in the ROMS/TOMS Group and indicate that you agree with the terms of the license.

NOPP Project

We have received ​National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) funding for 2007-2009 to accelerate progress on this project. For more information about the NOPP CSTM project goals and approach, see the ​NOPP proposal. You can also read other project documents:

• ​NOPP proposal reviews
• ​ONR 2007 Annual Report
• ​ONR 2008 Annual Report

Getting Started

• Register as a CSTMS and ROMS User
• Change your password
• Download, modify, and update the source code using SVN
• Compile and run one of the bundled applications

More Advanced Topics

• Building ROMS with the build.sh script.
• Libraries Some info on the netCDF libraries required for ROMS.
• Report bugs, propose enhancements and track tasks using Trac
• ​Discuss issues, make announcements, request help using the CSTM Forum
• View all Trac tickets
• Browse CSTMS Meeting archives
• Share documents in a community web folder using WebDAV