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2% INTRODUCTION
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5\chapter*{Introduction}
6
7TOP (Tracers in the Ocean Paradigm) handles oceanic passive tracers in NEMO. At present, this component provides the physical constraints and boundaries conditions for oceanic tracers transport and represents a generalized, hardwired interface toward biogeochemical models to enable a seamless coupling.
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9It includes three independent components :
10
11\begin{itemize}
12        \item a transport code TRP sharing the same advection/diffusion routines with the dynamics, with specific treatment of some features like the surface boundary
13conditions, or the positivity of passive tracers concentrations
14        \item sources and sinks - SMS - models that can be typically biogeochemical, biological or radioactive
15        \item an offline option which is a simplified OPA 9 model using fields of physics variables that are previously stored to disk
16\end{itemize}
17
18There is two ways of coupling TOP to the dynamics :
19
20\begin{itemize}
21        \item \textit{online coupling} : the evolution of passive tracers is computed along with the dynamics
22        \item \textit{offline coupling} : the fields of physics variables are read from files and interpolated at each model time step, with no constraints on the time sampling in the input files
23\end{itemize}
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25TOP is designed to handle multiple oceanic tracers through a modular approach and it includes different sub-modules :
26
27\begin{itemize}
28        \item the ocean water age module (AGE) tracks down the time-dependent spread of surface waters into the ocean interior
29        \item inorganic carbon (e.g. CFCs, SF6) and radiocarbon (C14) passive tracers can be modeled to assess ocean absorption timescales of anthropogenic emissions and further address water masses ventilation
30        \item a built-in biogeochemical model (PISCES) to simulate lower trophic levels ecosystem dynamics in the global ocean
31        \item a prototype tracer module (MY\_TRC) to enable user-defined cases or the coupling with alternative biogeochemical models ( e.g. BFM, MEDUSA, ERSEM, BFM, ECO3M)
32\end{itemize}
33
34\begin{figure}[ht]
35\begin{center}
36\vspace{0cm}
37\includegraphics[width=0.80\textwidth]{Fig_TOP_design}
38%\includegraphics[height=6cm,angle=-00]{Fig_TOP_design}
39\caption{A schematic view of NEMO-TOP component}
40\label{topdesign}
41\end{center}
42\end{figure}
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