= Welcome to the Community Sediment Modeling Project (CSTM)  =

The goal of this project is to produce an open-source model that couples hydrodynamics (circulation and waves), sediment transport, and morphodynamics. The model will be 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 decades.  We are initially focusing on building this capability around the ROMS hydrodynamic modeling system, but will working toward modularizing the system components via the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF).
 
== License and Disclaimer ==
ROMS is copyright (c) 2002-2007 by [wiki:ROMSTOMSGroup The ROMS/TOMS Group]. Please read the [wiki:ROMS_license 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 recieved [http://www.nopp.org/ 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 [https://www.hosted-projects.com/dav/cmgsoft/nopp/proposal/CSTM_Tech-proposal.pdf NOPP proposal].  You can also read the [https://www.hosted-projects.com/dav/cmgsoft/nopp/proposal/nopp_cstm_reviews.pdf NOPP proposal reviews].


== Getting Started ==
  * [wiki:SvnIntro Subversion]: download, modify, and update the source code.  There is no alternate FTP or HTTP access to tar.gz or zip files.
  * [wiki:TracIntro Trac]: browse the source code, report bugs, ask questions and suggest improvements. 
  * [https://www.hosted-projects.com/dav/cmgsoft/nopp WebDAV]: share documents in a community web folder.

== Announcements ==
 

 * '''January 11, 2007  1200 EST (1700 UTC)''' - Plenary NOPP Meeting.  
  Rich Signell will give tutorial on Subversion and Trac.  We will be using Trac to manage the project science and Subversion to manage the code.  [wiki:WebEx Instructions].

 * '''December 18, 2006''' - Plenary NOPP Meeting. John Warner gave an overview of ROMS_SED. 

 * '''December 5, 2006''' - Plenary NOPP Meeting.  General kickoff.