MERCATOR-NEMO team - 2010 actions

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members

Name	Institution	%	Position
Yann Drillet	Mercator Océan, Toulouse	50
Clément Bricaud	Mercator Océan, Toulouse	50	Mercator NEMO officer

total weeks :
15+6+3+6+4+4+4+2 = 44 wk (40 wk = man/year)

MERCATOR.1 — On-the-fly interpolation for the initial state

Motivation: Read and interpole 3D files like Levitus with fldread
Status : Running on NEMO_3.2, NVTK OK, branch is opened.
main tasks : review and commit
Principal Investigator : Clement Bricaud (cbricaud@…)
Deadline : 19th March 2010 Priority: High
Science Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
Number of weeks : 1 (TBC)

MERCATOR.2 — Add the option "weekly" in fldread.F90

Motivation: Read weekly forcing files
Status : Running on NEMO_3.2, NVTK OK.
main tasks : review and commit
Principal Investigator : Clement Bricaud (cbricaud@…)
Deadline :02nd April 2010
Priority: High
Science Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
Number of weeks : 1 (TBC)

MERCATOR.3 — EVP rheology in LIM2

Motivation: Use EVP rheology of LIM3 in LIM2
Status : Running on NEMO_3.2, NVTK OK.
main tasks : review and commit.
Principal Investigator : Gilles Garric (ggarric@…)
Deadline :02nd April 2010
Priority: High
Science Reviewer : Met Office or NOCS ?(TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
Number of weeks : 2 (TBC)

MERCATOR.4 — Atmospheric pressure

Motivation: Use Atmospheric pressure to add the atm gradient to the 3D momentum tendency , to add inverse barometer to open boundary data elevations, and in bulk formulae or flux.
Status : Running at Mercator and Met Office.
main tasks : phasing developments of Mercator and Met Office, review and commit.
Principal Investigator : Jerome Chanut (jchanut@…)
Deadline :14th May 2010
Priority: High
Science Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
Number of weeks : 2 (TBC)

MERCATOR.5 — GLS Vertical scheme

Motivation: Mellor Yamada 2,5, generic length scale (Umlauf and burchard 2003) +boundary conditions(Craig and Banner)
Status : Running on NEMO_2.3; phazing on NEMO_3.2
main tasks : review, NVTK,doc and commit.
Principal Investigator : Guillaume Reffray (greffray@…)
Deadline :21th May 2010
Priority: High
Science Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
Number of weeks : 2 (TBC)

MERCATOR.6 — Tidal potential

Motivation:
Status : Running on NEMO_3.1 .
main tasks : merge with Met Office OBC, review, NVTK, doc and commit.
Principal Investigator : Olivier Legalloudec <olegallou@…>
Deadline :30th july 2010
Priority: High
Science Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
Number of weeks : 2 (TBC)

MERCATOR.7 — Mixed Implicit/Explicit? bottom friction

Motivation: Unconsistent bottom stress in 2d and 3d modes. From BOM code. Explicit bottom stress in barotropic equations/implicit in baroclinic equations .
Status :Ready. Need to iterate with Gurvan with respect to recent implementation of explicit bottom friction.
main tasks :phasing, review, NVTK, doc and commit.
Principal Investigator : Jerome Chanut (jchanut@…)
Deadline :24th September 2010
Priority: High
Science Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
Number of weeks : 2 (TBC)

MERCATOR.8 — PPM advection scheme

Motivation: Add another scheme for tracers advection .
Status : Running on NEMO_3.2, doc OK, NVTK OK.
main tasks :commit.
Principal Investigator : Guillaume Reffray (greffray@…)
Deadline :24th September 2010
Priority: Low
Science Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
Number of weeks : 1 (TBC)

MERCATOR.9 — ECUME bulk formulae

Motivation: Ability for NEMO to use another bulk formulation for heat, humidity and momentum at the air/sea interface based on multi-campaigns in situ measurements.
Status : Development and phasing with nemo_3.2 OK.
main tasks : Need some improvments, review, doc, NVTK, commit.
Principal Investigator : Gilles Garric (ggarric@…)
Deadline :01th October 2010
Priority: High
Science Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
Number of weeks : 3 (TBC)

MERCATOR.10 — Lagrangian Floats Module improvments

Motivation: Online monitoring of water particles (position + (T,S) signature), improvements of ascii output + implementation of I/O Ariane (B Blanke) convention: on-mesh initialisation+ netcdf outputs
Status : OK for NEMO 2.3
main tasks : (3 wk) Phasing with new IOM, review NVTK, doc and commit - v3.4
Principal Investigator : stephane LAW CHUNE (slaw@…)
Deadline :08st October 2010
Priority: Low
Science Reviewer : NOCS(TBC)
System Reviewer : NOCS (TBC)
Number of weeks : 1 (TBC)

MERCATOR.11 — Online computing of transport across sections

Motivation: diagnostic
Status : OK for NEMO 3.1
main tasks : (3 wk) review NVTK, doc and commit - v3.4
Principal Investigator : Clement BRICAUD (cbricaud@…)
Deadline :08st October 2010
Priority: Low
Science Reviewer : Met Office(TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office(TBC)
Number of weeks : 1 (TBC)

MERCATOR.12 — resolving the 2 versions of time-stepping

Motivation: Tracer conservation and time splitting. reference: Shchepetkin, A. F., and J. C. McWilliams?, 2005
Status :Running and NVTK OK. Need to compare with the Leap-Frog version of Gurvan Madec
main tasks : Need to compare with the Leap-Frog version of Gurvan Madec.
Principal Investigator : Jerome Chanut (jchanut@…)

Number of weeks : 2 (TBC)

MERCATOR.13 — Improvement of OBC

Motivation: need to discuss with OBCs' experts of the consortium to organize the work
Status :
main tasks :
Principal Investigator : Jerome Chanut (jchanut@…)

Number of weeks : 2 (TBC)

MERCATOR.14 — User Support

Motivation:Provide support to users of NEMO.
Number of weeks : 2 (TBC)

MERCATOR.14 — Code Reviewing

Reviewing code from NEMO partners [[BR] Number of weeks : 2 (TBC)

MERCATOR.14 — Beta Testing

Beta testing of the next relaese

MERCATOR.15 — Exchange with others centers

System Team meetings Developers Team meetings NEMO Users meetings Number of weeks : 2 (TBC)