sbPOM: A parallel implementation of Princenton Ocean Model

Software availability Software name: sbPOM Developers: Antoni Jordi and Dong-Ping Wang Contact: [email protected] Software requirements: Linux or Unix, fortran compiler, mpich 2, parallel NetCDF Programming language: Fortran 77 Availability and cost: Test cases are available at http://imedea.uibcsic.es/users/toni/sbpom at no cost 1. Overview Ocean circulation models are an integral part of the ocean observing system, which play a central role in the study of global climate and biogeochemical cycles. There are many ocean models using different approaches to spatial discretization and vertical coordinate treatment, numerical algorithms for time-stepping, advection, pressure gradient, and subgrid-scale parameterizations. Reviews on ocean models and recent developments can be found in Griffies et al. (2000) and Ezer et al. (2002). Among them, the Princeton Ocean Model (POM) is widely adopted (http:// www.aos.princeton.edu/WWWPUBLIC/htdocs.pom/). The POM community has developed several coupled models for biogeochemical (Chau, 2003; Vichi et al., 1998), sediment (Liu and