Software development of the TaIwan Multi-scale Community Ocean Model (TIMCOM)

The recently developed TaIwan Multi-scale Community Ocean Model (referred as TIMCOM), evolving from the DieCAST (Dietrich Center for Air Sea Technology) model, provides an accurate, efficient, and user-friendly framework to study a broad spectrum of oceanic flows, ranging from bays and coastal to gl...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Environmental modelling & software : with environment data news 2012-12, Vol.38, p.214-219
Main Authors: Young, Chih-Chieh, Tseng, Yu-Heng, Shen, Mao-Lin, Liang, Yu-Chiao, Chen, Mu-Hua, Chien, Chia-Hung
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Community model
computer software
environmental models
equations
EVP method
Fourth order
Grid coupling
oceans
TIMCOM
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The recently developed TaIwan Multi-scale Community Ocean Model (referred as TIMCOM), evolving from the DieCAST (Dietrich Center for Air Sea Technology) model, provides an accurate, efficient, and user-friendly framework to study a broad spectrum of oceanic flows, ranging from bays and coastal to global oceans. The model employs the finite volume concept and discretizes the primitive equations using the modified leapfrog scheme and fourth-order spatial approximation. The pressure Poisson equation is efficiently solved by the error vector propagation (EVP) method. Adaptive grid-coupling technique is further adopted to provide the required resolution for the targeted region without excessive computation. Besides, a user-friendly interface is introduced to simplify user customization. Two practical applications, global and dual-grid North Pacific Ocean modeling frameworks which are used to simulate the global and regional ocean-climate variability, clearly show the robustness, efficiency, and accuracy of the TIMCOM software.
ISSN:1364-8152
1873-6726
DOI:10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.05.017