Installation Of Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)

Regional Ocean Modeling System(ROMS ) is a free-surface, terrain-following, primitive equations ocean model widely used by the scientific community for a diverse range of applications (e.g., Haidvogel et al., 2000; Marchesiello et al., 2003; Peliz et al., 2003; Di Lorenzo, 2003; Dinniman et al., 2003; Budgell, 2005; Warner et al., 2005a, b; Wilkin et al., 2005). The algorithms that comprise ROMS computational nonlinear kernel are described in detail in Shchepetkin and McWilliams (2003, 2005), and the tangent linear and adjoint kernels and platforms are described in Moore et al. (2004). ROMS includes accurate and efficient physical and numerical algorithms and several coupled models for biogeochemical, bio-optical, sediment, and sea ice applications. The sea ice model is described in Budgell (2005). It also includes several vertical mixing schemes (Warner et al., 2005a), multiple levels of nesting and composed grids.