The Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) is a regional ocean general circulation modeling system solving the free surface, hydrostatic, primitive equations over varying topography. It is free software distributed worldwide for studying both complex coastal ocean problems and the basin-to-global scale ocean circulation. The original ROMS code could only be run on shared-memory systems. With the...

The UVic Earth System Climate Model (version 2.8 with parameters as described in detail in (28)) includes a three-dimensional ocean general circulation model, a dynamicthermodynamic sea ice model, a simple one-layer energy-moisture balance model of the atmosphere as well as land-surface and dynamic terrestrial vegetation components at a resolution of 1.8°×3.6° with 19 vertical levels in the oce...

In order to conduct faithful simulations of ocean circulation one needs considerable computational power and storage capabilities. We study the parallelization of a three-dimensional ocean circulation model (OCM) and provide summary results from recent experiments on the Cedar hierarchical architecture. A major goal of our effort is to obtain guidelines for the proper design of OCM codes for pa...

Article history: Nd isotopic compositions o Received 19 November 2007 Received in revised form 20 May 2008 Accepted 21 May 2008 Available online 5 June 2008 Editor: H. Elderfield

Thermobaric convection (type II convection) and thermobaric cabbeling (type III convection) might substantially contribute to vertical mixing, vertical heat transport, and deep-water formation in the World Ocean.However, the extent of this contribution remains poorly constrained. The concept of ocean convective available potential energy (OCAPE), the thermobaric energy source for type II and ty...

Ocean-moored buoys play an important role in global ocean environment monitoring. Motivated by building a sustainable buoy observational network, spatial optimization approach is proposed to site stations maximize monitoring efficiency (SME). To achieve this goal, non-linear, continuous maximum coverage location model named CMCP-Ocean was established, associated with measurement method of the S...

from applied linguistic point of view, the fundamental question facing the language teachers, methodologists and course designers is which procedure is more effective in fl/sl: learning to use or using to learn? definitely, in order to be a competent language user, knowledge of language system is necessary, but it is not sufficient to be a successful language user. that is why there was a gradu...

Existing studies of open innovation (OI) have ignored the impact of product complexity and heterogeneity on online open innovation (OOI) practices. We divide OOI practices in consumer goods industry into four types, and examine how product complexity and heterogeneity influence the ways that companies carry out OOI. The finding is based on a longitudinal study of 138 cases.

Winogradskyella sp. strain PG-2 is a marine flavobacterium isolated from surface seawater. This organism contains proteorhodopsin, which can convert light energy into available forms of biochemical energy. Here, we present its complete genome sequence and annotation, which provide further insights into the life strategy of proteorhodopsin-mediated phototrophy in the ocean.