2004 LOM Workshop

Monday 2:00 - 2:45 p.m.

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HOME overview, plans, and best-practice studies

Robert Hallberg, R. Bleck, E. Chassignet, R. deSzoeke, S. Griffies, P. Schopf, A. Wallcraft
NOAA/GFDL
Robert.Hallberg@noaa.gov

ABSTRACT

This talk will be an overview of the Hybrid Ocean Modeling Environment (HOME). HOME will provide a versatile community open-source, ocean modeling environment using a predominantly Lagrangian vertical coordinate. The HOME development effort will also identify and refine best practices or describe trade-offs between alternatives for simulating a range of important ocean processes. Many of the principle developers of HYCOM, HIM, Poseidon, POSUM are actively engaged in the HOME effort. While we will maintain much of the existing algorithmic diversity within HOME, it is anticipated that new development and new model applications from each of these groups will be based primarily upon the HOME code within the next 3 years. HOME is intended to be a community model in the fullest sense, and we will strive to facilitate community participation in and contributions to the HOME development effort. This talk will provide an overview of HOME, the rationale behind it and the synergies that will emerge from it. Both the near term plans for HOME and the long-term prospects for HOME to act as a catalyst of broader collaborations with the users and developers of other classes of ocean models will be discussed. A particular emphasis will be placed on plans to conduct a broad series of "best-practice" studies for Lagrangian vertical coordinate ocean models.

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LOM Users' Workshop, February 9-11, 2004