INGV-NEMO team - 2014 actions

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members

Name	Institution	%	Position
Emanuela Clementi	INGV, Bologna	30	young scientist
Damiano DelRosso?	INGV, Bologna	30	research associate
Paolo Oddo	INGV, Bologna	40	INGV NEMO officer, senior scientist

Summary: List here actions of the institution so as contributions to shared actions

Action	Brief description	Status	Branch name	Trac ticket n°	Wiki page name	Reviewer(s)	Review status	Nb of weeks	Ready for merge. If "NO", reason and status for 2014
INGV-1	Continuation of Surface Pressure effect developments in limited area model	started in 2012	dev_r3389_INGV1+atmpres	968	wiki:ticket/968?				Work has been done although becoming partly useless with choices on simplification (remove the filtered free surface). The work is described in a paper that has been accepted for the NEMO special issue
INGV-2	NEMO model reliability								done continuously
INGV-3	River lateral open boundary conditions								postponed
INGV-4	Wave-current interaction								In 2014 the WAVE WG met and identified, as a first step development, a set of large scale wave effects to be implemented. Some technical issues have been identified with respect to a development branch created implementing the work done by ECMWF. In 2015 the identified issues will be implemented by the WAVE WG and a proper configuration will be created to test the developments. Time will be dedicated to start discussing the second phase development identifying the coastal processes to be implemented
INGV-5	Participate to the Confioguration Manager WG								Participation to the WG
INGV-6	GMD NEMO Special Issue								NEMO Special Issue successfully created, but the number of papers submitted by System Team is lower than announced

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INGV 2014 WP actions connections with white paper and on-going discussion

INGV-1 Continuation of Surface Pressure effect developments in limited area model. This action is not in line with the idea of suppressing filtered free-surface

INGV-2 NEMO model reliability. This action belong to White Paper chapter 9 NEMO "validation and contours of user support". The physic and not only the numeric (SETTE) are tested.

INGV-3 River lateral open boundary conditions. Chapter 3 of the white paper, to better define the NEMO contours for river representation in the different cases implemented (Surface, 3D T/S and ssh, or BDY)

INGV-4 Wave-Current interaction. Chapter-4. Evolutions of ocean physics

INGV-5 Participate to the Configuration Manager WG. Chapter 9 Improve users experience, facilitate the first steps with NEMO (tutorial, config tools)

INGV-6 GMD special issue. Chapter 9 User support and interaction with the wider community

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INGV.1 — Continuation of Surface Pressure effect developments in limited area model

Motivation: Once the OBC-BDY merging will be completed and new developments can start, INGV would like to implement a new Volume/Mass? constraint for the filtered free-surface. Actual version of the NEMO code forces, in case of filtered free surface, the total volume to be conserved each time-step. INGV proposes to control the mass exchange through the lateral open boundaries using a generalized Flather lateral boundary condition. During this year INGV proposes a deep Study of model response and sensitivity to time-splitting and filtered free surface with and without the atmospheric pressure forcing. Producing a Peer-reviewed manuscript or NEMO-technical report

Status: Preliminary test already done
Main tasks: Recode according consortium rules; ensure compatibility between filtered free-surface / volume conservation and new mass fluxes through lateral open boundaries
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Principal Investigator : Paolo Oddo (paolo.oddo@…)

INGV.2 — NEMO model reliability

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Main tasks: Continuation: Perform basic coherency/consistency tests. NEMO-technical report (wiki page).
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Principal Investigator : Paolo Oddo (paolo.oddo@…)

INGV.3 — River lateral open boundary conditions

Motivation: A proper representation of river volume inflow. In case of large runoff, including the river effects only in the surface water balance (Evaporation minus Precipitation minus runoff/area) could limit the model capability in reproducing the dynamics in the Region Of Fresh water Influence (ROFI). An open lateral boundary condition with a vertical current profile is preferable. However the full functionality of BDY module should allows to include rivers as LOBC. FIrst step will be to investigate this possibility and evaluate the need for further developments.
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Principal Investigator : Paolo Oddo (paolo.oddo@…)

INGV.4 — Wave-current interaction

Motivation: toward full coupling of a wave model with NEMO.

The study of this particular issue indicates the need to finalize the discussion before prooceede with any new implementation, INGV will lead the wave-coupling WG in the NEMO system team promoting the discussion.

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Principal Investigator : Emanuela Clementi (emanuela.clementi@…)

INGV.5 — Participate to the Confioguration Manager WG.

Motivation: During the annual meeting the need to have a flexible and scientifically valid tool to configure new model set-ip has been identified. INGV will actively partipiate to this WG. .
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Principal Investigator : Paolo Oddo (paolo.oddo@…)

INGV.6 — GMD NEMO Special Issue

Motivation: Coordinate contribution and act as coordinator for the GMD NEMO special Issue.
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Principal Investigator : Paolo Oddo (paolo.oddo@…)