CMCC-NEMO team - 2011 actions

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members

Name	Institution	%	Position
Srdjan Dobricic	CMCC, Bologna	30	CMCC NEMO officer, scientist
Marcello Vichi	CMCC, Bologna	30	scientist
Italo Epicoco	CMCC, Lecce	20	scientist
Silvia Mocavero	CMCC, Lecce	20	scientist

total weeks :
12 + 12 + 8 + 8 = 40 wk

Summary:

Action	Brief description	Status	Branch name	Trac ticket n°	Wiki page name	Reviewer(s)	Review status	Ready for merge
CMCC-1	Improve TOP interface
CMCC-2	Test dynamical allocation
CMCC-3	Improve OBS and ASM
CMCC-4	Check masks

CMCC.1 — Improve TOP interface

Motivation: Improve coupling with other biogeochemical models (HadOCC, BFM, etc.). Add generic interfaces for surface and lateral boundary conditions for tracers (river input and atmospheric deposition).
Status : This interface has already been done for transport routines.
Main tasks : Port the interface used for transport routines to the surface and boundary condition routines currently used for T and S (in collaboration with INGV for rivers).
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Priority: Medium
Principal Investigator : Marcello Vichi

CMCC.2 — Test dynamical allocation

Motivation: The ability to run NEMO at different spatial resolutions and to modify the number of processes without recompiling the code.
Status : To be started when the NEMO version 3.3 will be released.
Main tasks : Test of dynamic memory management improvement implemented by the HECTOR supercomputing centre. The test will be performed on both the NEC SX9 and IBM Power6 clusters available at the CMCC. During the test phase, the Mediterranean configuration (1/16°) will be added to the standard test configurations.
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Priority: High
Principal Investigator : Italo Epicoco

CMCC.3 — Improve OBS and ASM

Motivation: Improve the OBS and ASM interfaces to nest with other data assimilation schemes, in particular OceanVar?. Eventually add new observational operators.
Status : The existing OBS and ASM for the NemoVar? will be used and adapted for the OceanVar? scheme.
Main tasks : 1) Test the existing scheme with OceanVar?; 2) Make necessary modifications (new observational operators etc.)
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Priority: Medium
Principal Investigator : Srdjan Dobricic

CMCC.4 — Check masks

Motivation: Advection of the rotational component of velocity should conserve the total energy and enstrophy.
Status : Masks will be checked to ensure the conservation of these two properties, and eventual modifications will be applied.
Main tasks : 1) Theoretical check of the conservation of energy and enstrophy with existing masks. 2) Modification of masks to ensure the conservation.
Science Reviewer: Gurvan Madec
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Priority: High
Principal Investigator : Srdjan Dobricic