MERCATOR-NEMO team - 2011 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 :
1+1+2+2+2+3+2+1+3+1+1+3+3+2+3+3+3 = 36 wk (40 wk = man/year)

Summary:

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

MERCATOR.1 —

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MERCATOR.1 — Atmospheric pressure: end of 2010 task

Motivation: Use Atmospheric pressure to add the atm gradient to add inverse barometer to OBC and BDY.
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 :End May 2011
Priority: High
Science Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)

MERCATOR.2 — 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 :End july 2011
Priority: High
Science Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
Number of weeks : 3

MERCATOR.3 — 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 : ??
Priority: High
Science Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
Number of weeks : 2

MERCATOR.4 — PPM advection scheme

Motivation: Add another scheme for tracers advection: horizontal part done at Mercator ; vertical part from UkMet? ? .
Status : Running on NEMO_3.2.
main tasks :commit.
Principal Investigator : Guillaume Reffray (greffray@…)
Deadline : ??
Priority: Low
Science Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
Number of weeks : 1

MERCATOR.5 — 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 :End October 2011
Priority: High
Science Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office (TBC)
Number of weeks : 3

MERCATOR.6 — 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 : Working with IOIPSL, not with IOM
main tasks : (3 wk) Phasing with new IOM, review NVTK, doc and commit - v3.4
Principal Investigator : stephane LAW CHUNE (slaw@…)
Deadline :End October 2011
Priority: Low
Science Reviewer : NOCS(TBC)
System Reviewer : NOCS (TBC)
Number of weeks : 1

MERCATOR.8 — 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 :???
Priority: Low
Science Reviewer : Met Office(TBC)
System Reviewer : Met Office(TBC)
Number of weeks : 1

MERCATOR.9 — 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.
Priority: High
Principal Investigator : Jerome Chanut (jchanut@…)
Number of weeks : 3 (TBC)

MERCATOR.10 — Improvement of OBC

Motivation: need to discuss with OBCs' experts of the consortium to organize the work; merge OBC and BDY
Status :
main tasks :
Principal Investigator : Jerome Chanut (jchanut@…)
Priority: High
Number of weeks : 3 (TBC)

MERCATOR.11 — configuration of NEMO code to the RAPS consortium.

Motivation: benchmarking purposes
Status : submitted
main tasks :
Principal Investigator : Mondher Chekki (mchekki@…)
Priority: High
Number of weeks : 3 (TBC)

MERCATOR.12 — User Support

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

MERCATOR.13 — Code Reviewing

Motivation:Reviewing code from NEMO partners
Number of weeks : 3

MERCATOR.14 — Beta Testing

Motivation:Beta testing of the next relaese
Number of weeks : 3

MERCATOR.15 — Exchange with others centers

Motivation:System Team meetings, Developers Team meetings,NEMO Users meetings, partcipate to the merge party.
Number of weeks : 3 Number of weeks : 2