Finite Volume Community Ocean Model
Topic: Earth
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Short description: Prognostic, unstructured-grid, free-surface, 3-D primitive equation coastal ocean circulation model
File:Hypersaline sea surface release and propagation under tidal conditions in the northern North Sea-EmQv4qk0kUo.webm 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
- ↑ 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". University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. http://fvcom.smast.umassd.edu/research_projects/index.html.
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