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| 2 | %% Common abstract |
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| 5 | ``Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean'' as \NEMO\ is a state-of-the-art modelling framework of |
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| 6 | ocean-related engines for research activities and forecasting services in oceanography and climatology, |
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| 7 | developed in a sustainable way since 2008 by a European consortium of 5 institutes |
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| 8 | (\CMCC{CMCC} | \CNRS{CNRS} | \MOI{Mercator Océan} | \UKMO{Met Office} | \NERC{NERC}). |
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| 9 | It is intended to be a flexible tool for studying the physical and biogeochemical phenomena in |
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| 10 | the ocean circulation, as well as its interactions with the components of the Earth climate system, |
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| 11 | over a wide range of space and time scales. |
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| 13 | Concerning the physics, the fundamental engine for the \textcolor{blue}{``blue ocean''} solves |
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| 14 | the primitive equations of the ocean \{thermo\}dynamics. |
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| 15 | It can be supplemented by the \textcolor{gray}{``white ocean''} for sea-ice \{thermo\}dynamics, |
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| 16 | brine inclusions and subgrid-scale thickness variations (\SIcube), and also by |
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| 17 | the \textcolor{green}{``green ocean''} for \{on,off\}line oceanic tracers transport and |
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| 18 | biogeochemical processes (\TOP-\PISCES). |
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| 19 | External alternative models can be used instead of the core engines (\eg\ \CICE\ and \BFM). |
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| 20 | Regarding the numerics, main features include versatile data assimilation interface, |
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| 21 | agile diagnostics generation thanks to \XIOS\ software, |
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| 22 | ocean-atmosphere coupling via the \OASIS\ library, and |
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| 23 | seamless embedded zooms with the \AGRIF\ 2-way nesting package. |
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