About NEMO
NEMO standing for Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean
is a state-of-the-art modelling framework for research activities and forecasting services in
ocean and climate sciences, developed in a sustainable way by a European consortium.
Overview
The NEMO ocean model has 3 major components:
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NEMO-OCE
models the ocean {thermo}dynamics and solves the primitive equations
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NEMO-ICE (SI3: Sea-Ice Integrated Initiative)
models sea-ice {thermo}dynamics, brine inclusions and subgrid-scale thickness variations
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NEMO-TOP (Tracers in the Ocean Paradigm)
models the {on,off}line oceanic tracers transport and biogeochemical processes (using PISCES)
These physical core engines are described in their respective
reference manuals
that must be cited for any work related to their use.
Additional capabilities
- Create
embedded zooms
seamlessly thanks to 2-way nesting package AGRIF
- Input-Output through effective
XIOS
software
- Coupling interface to other Earth system components based on
OASIS
- Opportunity to integrate an external biogeochemistry model
- Versatile
data interface
- Set of
utilities
is also provided to {pre,post}process your data
Reference Configurations and Test Cases
Several built-in configurations are provided to evaluate the skills and performances of the model.
They can be used as as first easy set-up and as template for setting up a new configuration.
Idealized test cases addressing specific physical processes are also available for download.
Project literature
Component | Reference Manual | User Guide |
NEMO-OCE
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NEMO-ICE |
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NEMO-TOP
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Since 2014 the project has a Special Issue in
the open-access journal Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) from the European Geosciences Union (EGU).
The main scope is to collect relevant manuscripts covering various topics and
to provide a single portal to assess the model potential and evolution.
Used by a wide audience,
numerous associated projects have been carried out and
various publications are available.
Consortium bodies
The NEMO Consortium pulling together 5 European institutes
plans the sustainable development in order to
keep a reliable evolving framework since 2008.
It defines the multi-year development strategy
that is implemented by the System Team on a yearly basis
in order to regularly release a new version.
When the need arises,
working groups are created or resumed
to gather the community expertise for advising on the development activities.