NOC-NEMO team - 2013 actions

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members

Name	Institution	%	Position
Andrew Coward	NERC-NOC, Southampton	40	NOC NEMO officer
George Nurser	NERC-NOC, Southampton	10
Hedong Liu	NERC-NOC, Liverpool	50

total weeks :
>= 40 weeks (=1 man-year)

Summary:

Action	Brief description	Status	Branch name	Trac ticket n°	Wiki page name	Reviewer(s)	Review status	Nb of weeks	Ready for merge
NOCS-01	User Interface		N/A					2
NOCS-02	System Maintenance							4
NOCS-03	Z-tilde coordinate							5
NOCS-04	Iceberg drift component enhancements							3
NOCS-05	Classic Fox-Kemper							3
NOCS-06	Prather Advection							3
NOCL-01	Wetting and Drying							20

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NOCS.01 - User Interface

Description: Provide support to users of NEMO. NOC will provide in depth support for code supplied by them.
Motivation: Shared daily support to users, web & paper documentation.
Main task: (2 wk)
Principal Investigator : Andrew Coward (acc@…)

NOCS.02 - System maintenance

Main tasks : (a) Code Reviewing - Reviewing code from NEMO partners (1 w)
(b) Beta Testing - Beta testing of new versions (1 w)
(c) Collaboration - Time spent:

• hosting visitors from partner institutes on the NEMO system team
  
• travelling to partner institutes for exchange visits
  
• attending NEMO Steering, Developers and System Team meetings
  
• attending “merge party”
  (2 w)
  Principal Investigator : Andrew Coward(acc@…)
  

NOCS.03 — Z-tilde coordinate

Description: New vertical coordinate which responds to high frequency vertical motions
Motivation: Introduce an arbitrary lagrangian eulerian coordinate to reduce spurious diapycnal mixing due to high frequency vertical variations. Relevant to tidally forced simulations and internal wave resolving configurations.
Status: done in a phd thesis, see Leclair 2010 ; a 2011 branch exists: see here
Main task (5 wk)
Deadline : August 2013
Priority: High
Science Reviewer : Gurvan Madec
System Reviewer : Paris (TBC)
Principal Investigator : Andrew Coward(acc@…)

NOCS.04 — Iceberg drift component enhancements

Description: Improvements to the iceberg drift component interface in order to provide easy input of key control fields
Motivation: An ice berg drift component was introduced in v3.5. The basic component requires additional code to allow greater control over features such as temporally and spatially varying calving rates.
Status:
Main task (3 wk)
Deadline : June 2013
Priority: Medium
Science Reviewer :
System Reviewer : Paris (TBC)
Principal Investigator : Andrew Coward(acc@…)

NOCS.05 — Classic Fox-Kemper

Description: To provide the original Fox-Kemper eddy parameterisation.
Motivation: The Fox-Kemper scheme is an established and published eddy parameterisation. This work will introduce the original scheme into the system but will also track ongoing research which is expected to improve on the standard scheme. The submitted scheme will be the best available (dependent on research results and publication) by the development deadline.
Status:
Main task (3 wk)
Deadline : 22nd September 2013
Priority: High
Science Reviewer :
System Reviewer : Paris (TBC)
Principal Investigator : Andrew Coward(acc@…)

NOCS.06 — Prather advection

Description: To provide a high order, reference advection scheme against which more computationally efficient schemes can be compared.
Motivation: The Prather advection scheme is currently the advection scheme of choice in other key modelling systems (MOM, ROMS etc.)
Main task: (2 wk)
(1) Implementation in the trunk+ NVTK + documentation (1 wk) v3.6 release
Principal Investigator : Andrew Coward/George? Nurser (acc@…)
Deadline : 22nd April 2013
Priority: Low
Science Reviewer : Gurvan Madec (TBC)
System Reviewer : Rachid Benshila (TBC)

NOCL.01 — Wetting and Drying

Motivation: Add Wetting/Drying? functionality to NEMO for coastal ocean applications
Status: In preparation
Main task (26 wk)
Deadline : End of 2013
Priority: High
Science Reviewer : TBC
System Reviewer : TBC
Principal Investigator : Hedong Liu (Hedong.Liu@…)