Finite Volume Community Ocean Model

Ocean circulation model
FVCOM simulation of hypersaline sea surface release and propagation under tidal conditions in the northern North Sea

The Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM; Formerly Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model) is a prognostic, unstructured-grid, free-surface, 3-D primitive equation coastal ocean circulation model.[1] The model is developed primarily by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and used by researchers worldwide. Originally developed for the estuarine flooding/drying process, FVCOM has been upgraded to the spherical coordinate system for basin and global applications.

References

  1. ^ Chen, Changsheng; Beardsley, Robert; Cowles, Geoffrey (2006). "An Unstructured Grid, Finite-Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) System". Oceanography. 19 (1): 78–89. doi:10.5670/oceanog.2006.92. ISSN 1042-8275.

External links

  • Official UMASSD FVCOM website:
    • "About us". FVCOM website, by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
    • "Research index: FVCOM". fvcom.smast.umassd.edu. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
  • v
  • t
  • e
Atmospheric, oceanographic, cryospheric, and climate models
Model types
  • Atmospheric model
  • Oceanographic model
  • Cryospheric model
  • Climate model
  • Numerical weather prediction
  • Tropical cyclone forecast model
  • Atmospheric dispersion modeling
  • Chemical transport model
  • Upper-atmospheric models
  • Ensemble forecasting
  • Model output statistics
  • Meteorological reanalysis
  • Parametrization
Specific models
Climate
Global weather
Regional and mesoscale atmospheric
Regional and mesoscale oceanographic
Atmospheric dispersion
Chemical transport
  • CLaMS
  • MOZART
  • GEOS-Chem
  • CHIMERE
Land surface parametrization
Cryospheric models
  • CICE
Discontinued


Stub icon

This oceanography article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • v
  • t
  • e
Stub icon

This climatology-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • v
  • t
  • e