This is a list of ocean circulation models, as used in physical oceanography. Ocean circulation models can also be used to study chemical oceanography, biological oceanography, geological oceanography, and climate science.
Acronym
Full name
ADCIRC
ADvanced CIRCulation model
COCO
CCSR (Center for Climate System Research) Ocean Component Model
COHERENS
COupled Hydrodynamical Ecological model for REgioNal Shelf seas
FVCOM
Finite Volume Community Ocean Model
FESOM
AWI Finite-Element/volumESea ice-Ocean Model
FRAM
Fine Resolution Antarctic Ocean Model
HOPE
The Hamburg Ocean Primitive Equation General Circulation Model [1]
HYCOM
HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model
LSG
The Hamburg Large Scale Geostrophic Ocean General Circulation Model [2]
MICOM
Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model
MITgcm
M.I.T. General Circulation Model
MOHID
MOdelo HIDrodinâmico
MOM
GFDL Modular Ocean Model
MOMA
MOM for Array Processors
OCCAM
Ocean Circulation and Climate Advanced Ocean Model
NEMO
Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean
OPYC
The Ocean IsoPYCnal General Circulation Model [3][4]
POM
Princeton Ocean Model
POP
The Parallel Ocean Program
ROMS
The Regional Ocean Modeling System
Veros
Versatile Ocean Simulator in Pure Python[5]
^Wolff J-O, Maier-Reimer E, Legutke S (1997) The Hamburg Ocean Primitive Equation Model HOPE. DKRZ report 13, Hamburg, Germany, doi:10.2312/WDCC/DKRZ_Report_No13.
^Maier-Reimer E, Mikolajewicz U (1992) The Hamburg Large Scale Geostrophic Ocean General Circulation Model (Cycle 1). DKRZ report 2, Hamburg, Germany, doi:10.2312/WDCC/DKRZ_Report_No02.
^Oberhuber JM (1993) Simulation of the Atlantic circulation with a coupled sea ice-mixed layer-isopycnal general circulation model, part I: model description. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 23, 808–829 doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1993)023<0808:SOTACW>2.0.CO;2.
^Oberhuber JM (1993) The OPYC Ocean General Circulation Model. DKRZ report 7, Hamburg, Germany, doi:10.2312/WDCC/DKRZ_Report_No07.
^"Versatile Ocean Simulator in Pure Python — documentation". veros.readthedocs.io. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
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