LOCEAN-NEMO team - 2011 actions

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members

Name	Institution	%	Position
Rachid Benshila	LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris	100	CNRS
Christian Ethé	IPSL, Paris	50	CNRS
Simona Flavoni	LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris	100	CNRS-INSU 1 year contract
Claire Lévy	LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris	100	NEMO project Manager
Bénédicte Lemieux	LEGI - Grenoble	50	CNRS 2 years contract (Arrived in Oct. 2009)
Sébastien Masson	LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris	50	CNAP
Marie-Alice Foujols	IPSL, Paris	5	CNRS
Marina Lévy	LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris	5	CNRS
Gurvan Madec	LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris	30	NEMO Scientific Leader (CNRS)

total weeks :
30 + 50 + 26 + 22 + 15 + 6 + 24 + 6 + 16 + 25 + 20 = 229 wk

Summary:

Action	Brief description	Status	Branch name	Trac ticket n°	Wiki page name	Reviewer(s)	Review status	Ready for merge
LOCEAN-1	a devlt

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LOCEAN .1 —MPP evolution' (continuation

Motivation:  Improve the mpp behaviour of NEMO by playing with width of the overlap area, the number of communication,
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Principal Investigator : Rachid Benshila (rachid.benshila@…) 

LOCEAN .2 —Coupled interface (end)

Motivation:  Improve the mpp behaviour of NEMO by playing with width of the overlap area, the number of communication,
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(1) documentation of the coupled surface module (25 June)
(2) coupling with multi-categories ice model (coll. UKMO)
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Principal Investigator : Sebastien Masson (smasson@…)  

LOCEAN .3 —Merge TRA-TRP (end)

Motivation: Merge of active and passive tracer advection/diffusion modules to avoid duplication of almost identical modules
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(1) apply the merge for OBC, BDY,AGRIF
(2) suppress T and S array to switch to 4d arrays
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Principal Investigator : Christian Ethé (cetlod@…)  

LOCEAN .4 —reference manuels (continuation)

Motivation: paper documentation a never-ending story
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(1) Create the TRP documentation using Latex (similar to the NEMO ocean engine documentation)
(2) update NEMO/OPA documentation
(3) review of the written documentation (NOCS team) Science Reviewer:
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Principal Investigator : Christian Ethé (cetlod@…)  

LOCEAN .5 —updating OBC

Motivation: OBC needs to be revisited to work with explicit free surface. It could be the opportunity to rewrite the whole routine, using fldread for OBC inputs, and maybe a generalized treatment for all boundaries.
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write a generic routine
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Principal Investigator :  Rachid Benshila (rachid.benshila@…)  

LOCEAN .6 —update the IOSERVER

Motivation: the IOSERVER is being rewritten to sosolve performance issues .
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if achieved, integrate the new version
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Principal Investigator :  Sebastien Masson (smasson@…)  

LOCEAN .7 —rewrite NVTK

Motivation: the test suite has to be totally revisited for portability and an easy addition of new tests .
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(1) definition of the functionalities
(2) implementation

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Principal Investigator :  Simona Flavoni (flavoni@…)  

LOCEAN .external —ORCA2-LIM based on NEMO (continuation))

Motivation: Provide to all groups using NEMO in coupled O/I/A simulations a reference set of forced experiments that document the effect of various physical package as well as the changes from the OPA8 to NEMO with respect to the ocean and ice components (and possibly PISCES). This is part of the IsENES EU project.
Status :ORCA2-LIM2 configuration (bathy, physics) has been updated, and Standard output for IPCC runs using IOM(v3.2). An environment has been developed to run long forced and coupled experiments together with the creation of standard control plots. Simulations have been performed (reference CORE2 normal year and interannual simulations )
Main tasks :
(1) ORCA2-LIM3 configuration, coll. with UCL (5 wk) (v3.4).
(2) Web and paper documentations of the behaviour found
(3) Possibly reference experiment with other resolution (ORCA1, 05, 025…) (v3.X) [BR]] (4) Possibly reference experiment with ORCA2-LIM-PISCES (v3.X) [BR]] Science Reviewer:
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Principal Investigator : Gurvan Madec (gm@…)  

LOCEAN.external — Configuration manager

Motivation: Create the configuration tools (CFG-tools): user-friendly interface, the tools, and the documentation associated to the creation of a new model configuration, and especially configurations defined as a zoom of an ORCA configuration. The tools include the generation of a grid, a bathymetry, an initial state, a forcing data set, and open boundary conditions. Status : Start in August 2009, within My_Ocean (Brice Lemaire position). Work done in collaboration with IFREMER.
main tasks : (50wk)
(1) revisit the grid generation of the AGRIF tools (6 wk) (v3.3)
(2) create a automatic OBC data generation (20 wk) (v3.4)
(3) Hand changes of the bathymetry through the Java interface developed at IFREMER (16 wk) (v3.4)
(4) First full version of the configuration manager (8 wk) (v3.5)
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Principal Investigator : Rachid Benshila (rachid.benshila@…)

LOCEAN.external — Development of TAM (continuation)

Motivation: development of the Tangent and Adjoint Model (TAM) of NEMO.
Status : Grenoble acion (LJK, LEGI, ANR VODA), a 3 years, started in 2008, and well engaged.
main tasks : (20 wk)
(1) update the linear tangent model of NEMO/OPA and add the (existing?) validation tools. (v3.4 or v3.5)
(2) update the Adjoint model of NEMO/OPA and add the (existing?) validation tools. (v3.5)
(3) create tutorial, test cases and reference experiment (v3.5)
Principal Investigator : Bénédicte Lemieux (email adress)

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