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Community Sediment Transport Model, NOPP

 

Funding period: 2006-2009

 

Collaborators

 

WHOI- W. Rockwell Geyer, Peter A. Traykovski, John H. Trowbridge

U.S. Geological Survey- Christopher R. Sherwood, Bradford Butman, Richard P. Signell, John C. Warner

Naval Research Laboratory- Timothy R. Keen, Tim J. Campbell

Rutgers University- Hernan G. Arango

Mississippi State University- Sachin Kumar Bhate

Stevens Institute- Alan F.Blumberg

Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science- Yeon Chang

Ohio State University- Diane Foster, Eric D. Skyllingstad

Woolpert, Inc.- David C. Froehlich

U. S. Army Corps of Engineers- Jeffrey L. Hanson, Donald T. Resio

University of Florida- Tom Hsu

WL|Delft Hydraulics- H.R. Albert Jagers, Johan C. Winterwerp

University of Delaware- James T. Kirby, Fengyan Shi

University of California, Los Angeles- James C. McWilliams, Alexander F. Shchepetkin, Keith D. Stolzenbach

Oregon State University- Natalie Perlin

UNESCO-IHE - Jan A. Roelvink

University of Maryland- Lawrence P. Sanford

HR Wallingford - Richard L. Soulsby, Richard J.S. Whitehouse

 

Objective

The goal of this project is to produce an open-source model that couples hydrodynamics (circulation and waves), sediment transport, and morphodynamics. The model will be suitable for realistic and useful simulations of processes that influence sediment transport in the coastal ocean, including estuaries, nearshore regions, and the continental shelf over regional length scales (10’s of meters to 100’s of kilometers) and time scales ranging from transport events to decades. The code will be written in modern, portable languages (mostly Fortran95) using a modular approach that will allow flexibility and extensibility. In addition to the source code (which will have an open-source license and run on most computer systems from laptops to multi-processor clusters), the project will provide model documentation, training, test cases, tools for processing model input and output, and demonstrated applications.

 

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