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Development and technical paper |
| 30 Jan 2023
| 30 Jan 2023
Ocean Modeling with Adaptive REsolution (OMARE; version 1.0) – refactoring the NEMO model (version 4.0.1) with the parallel computing framework of JASMIN – Part 1: Adaptive grid refinement in an idealized double-gyre case
Yan Zhang
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Xuantong Wang
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Yuhao Sun
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
Chenhui Ning
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
University Corporation for Polar Research (UCPR), Beijing, China
Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM), Beijing, China
Dehong Tang
Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM), Beijing, China
Hong Guo
Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM), Beijing, China
Hao Yang
Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM), Beijing, China
Ye Pu
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
Bin Wang
Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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We construct a new ocean model, OMARE, that can carry out multi-scale ocean simulation with...
