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Petersen, Mark;
Asay-Davis, Xylar;
Jacobsen, Douglas;
Maltrud, Mathew;
Ringler, Todd;
Van Roekel, Luke;
Wolfram, Phillip
{ "description": "<p>The Model for Prediction Across Scales-Ocean (MPAS-Ocean) is an unstructured-mesh ocean model</p>\n\n<p>capable of using enhanced horizontal resolution in selected regions of the ocean domain. Model</p>\n\n<p>domains may be spherical with bottom topography to simulate the earth's oceans, or on Cartesian</p>\n\n<p>domains for idealized experiments. The global meshes, created using Spherical Centroidal Voronoi</p>\n\n<p>Tesselations (Ringler et al., 2008, 2011) consist of gridcells that vary smoothly from low to high</p>\n\n<p>resolution regions. Numerical algorithms specially designed for these grids guarantee that mass,</p>\n\n<p>tracers, potential vorticity (in isopycnal mode) and energy are conserved (Thuburn et al., 2009;</p>\n\n<p>Ringler et al., 2010). MPAS-Ocean high-resolution and variable-resolution global simulations, as</p>\n\n<p>well as descriptions of mesh generation, model capabilities, and algorithms, are presented in Ringler</p>\n\n<p>et al. (2013a). The vertical grid is detailed in Petersen et al. (2014), including the Arbitrary</p>\n\n<p>Lagrangian Eulerian method, a variety of vertical coordinates, and results from five test cases.</p>\n\n<p>MPAS-Ocean is one component within the MPAS framework of climate models that is devel-</p>\n\n<p>oped in cooperation between Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the National Center</p>\n\n<p>for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Functionality that is required by all cores, such as i/o, time</p>\n\n<p>management, block decomposition, etc, is developed collaboratively, and this code is shared across</p>\n\n<p>cores within the same repository. Each core then solves its own differential equations and physical</p>\n\n<p>parameterizations within this framework. This user's guide reflects the spirit of this collaborative</p>\n\n<p>process, where Part I, "The MPAS Framework", applies to all cores, and the remaining parts apply</p>\n\n<p>to MPAS-Ocean.</p>\n\n<p> </p>\n\n<p>This release of the ocean model corresponds with the initial release of the Energy Exascale</p>\n\n<p>Earth System Model (E3SM) by the U.S. Department of Energy (see https://e3sm.org/). E3SM</p>\n\n<p>includes MPAS components for ocean, sea ice, and land ice. Each component may be run as a</p>\n\n<p>stand-alone model, or coupled within E3SM. MPAS-Ocean now includes biogeochemistry modules,</p>\n\n<p>and the ability to control groups of tracers.</p>\n\n<p> </p>\n\n<p>Information about MPAS-Ocean, including the most recent code, user's guide, and test cases,</p>\n\n<p>may be found at http://mpas-dev.github.com. This user's guide refers to MPAS-Ocean version 6.</p>", "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode", "creator": [ { "affiliation": "Los Alamos National Laboratory", "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7170-7511", "@type": "Person", "name": "Petersen, Mark" }, { "affiliation": "Los Alamos National Laboratory", "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1990-892X", "@type": "Person", "name": "Asay-Davis, Xylar" }, { "affiliation": "Los Alamos National Laboratory", "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-207X", "@type": "Person", "name": "Jacobsen, Douglas" }, { "affiliation": "Los Alamos National Laboratory", "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1738-7489", "@type": "Person", "name": "Maltrud, Mathew" }, { "affiliation": "Los Alamos National Laboratory", "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4433-4320", "@type": "Person", "name": "Ringler, Todd" }, { "affiliation": "Los Alamos National Laboratory", "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1418-5686", "@type": "Person", "name": "Van Roekel, Luke" }, { "affiliation": "Los Alamos National Laboratory", "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5971-4241", "@type": "Person", "name": "Wolfram, Phillip" } ], "url": "https://zenodo.org/record/1246893", "datePublished": "2018-05-15", "@context": "https://schema.org/", "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1246893", "@id": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1246893", "@type": "CreativeWork", "name": "MPAS Ocean User's Guide V6" }
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