Title A stand alone 1D-vertical version of the Coastal and Regional Ocean COmmunity model (CROCO)
Authors

Florian Lemarie
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LJK Researcher Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, office 185 (1st floor), Bâtiment IMAG, 700 Avenue Centrale, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères, France, email: florian.lemarie@inria.fr

Publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2020)
Contributors

Project Member: Giles Fearon
South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Operational Ocean Modeller 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, 1 Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, email: gfearon11@gmail.com

Contact Person: Giles Fearon
South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Operational Ocean Modeller 2nd Floor, Foretrust Building, 1 Martin Hammerschlag Way, Cape Town, South Africa, email: gfearon11@gmail.com

Abstract A 1D-vertical model originally developed by Florian Lemarie to test different vertical mixing parameterisations implemented in the full version of the CROCO source code. The model is run as a python script, simplifying the setup and testing of different 1D model configurations. The python script loops through time and calls a 1D version of the CROCO Fortran code at each time-step. A description of the input variables and how to implement the code is provided in scm_oce.pdf. Some examples of how the model has been used to benchmark oceanic vertical mixing parameterization against standard test cases is provided in comodo_params.pdf. The provided example configuration is described in "Fearon, G., Herbette, S., Veitch, J., Cambon, G., Lucas, A. J., Lemarié, F., & Vichi, M. (2020). Enhanced vertical mixing in coastal upwelling systems driven by diurnal‐inertial resonance: Numerical experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, e2020JC016208. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016208".
Methods Florian Lemarie implemented the parameterisation of vertical mixing in CROCO, a description of which is available in the online documentation - https://croco-ocean.gitlabpages.inria.fr/croco_doc/. He developed this python wrapper for the CROCO fortran code to test the mixing parameterisation implemented in the full version of the CROCO source code. This python wrapper was used to set up and test various simulations described in "Fearon, G., Herbette, S., Veitch, J., Cambon, G., Lucas, A. J., Lemarié, F., & Vichi, M. (2020). Enhanced vertical mixing in coastal upwelling systems driven by diurnal‐inertial resonance: Numerical experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, e2020JC016208. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016208".
Data
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Temporal extent 01 Jan 2020 – 01 Jan 2020
Geographic extent

Global

North: 90.0
South: -90.0
West: -180.0
East: 180.0

Keywords 1D-vertical model, CROCO, model, near-surface, tools, Vertical mixing
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