Test Cases

ROMS/TOMS Test Cases

ROMS is distributed with several idealized and realistic applications that can be used for testing, benchmarking, process-oriented studies, accuracy of numerical algorithms, learning and training, and ocean modeling experimentation. It also can be used to evaluate the efficiency, accuracy, and robustness of its numerical and physical algorithms against the solutions produced by other ocean modeling systems. Analytical or semi-analytical solutions exist for some of these test cases and few metrics/scores can be computed to assess model skill.

Idealized Applications

Currently, there are several idealized applications in ROMS to test its algorithms. Mostly all of these applications are initialized and forced with analytical expressions in analytical.F. It is recommended to the beginner user to run some of them to gain experience and explore ROMS capabilities.

• 4DVAR Data Assimilation Toy over a Periodic Channel
• Big Bad Basin
• Benchmark Tests, Idealized Southern Ocean
• One-dimensional Biology Toy
• Boundary Layers Test
• Coastal Form Stress Canyon Test
• Channel with a Constriction
• Two-way Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling Test
• Double-Gyre Test
• Suspended Sediment Test in an Estuary
• Float Tracking Test
• Gravitational Adjustment Example
• Test Inlet Application
• Kelvin Wave Test
• Lab Canyon, Polar Coordinates Example
• Lake Signell Sediment Test
• Vertical Mixing K-Profile Parameterization Test
• Gravitational/Overflow Test
• River Plume Test 1
• River plume Test 2 (Hyatt and Signell)
• Seamount Test
• Suspended Sediment Test in a Channel
• One-dimensional Sediment Toy
• Shore Face Planar Beach Test Case
• Equatorial Rossby Wave Test
• Sediment Test Channel Case
• Sediment Test Headland Case
• Wind-Driven Upwelling/Downwelling over a Periodic Channel (default)
• Idealized Weddell Sea Shelf Application
• Linear Wind-driven Constant Coriolis Basin