Comparison of the Coastal and Regional Ocean COmmunity model (CROCO) and NCAR-LES in non-hydrostatic simulations

Fan, Xiaoyu; Fox-Kemper, Baylor; Suzuki, Nobuhiro; Li, Qing; Marchesiello, Patrick; Sullivan, Peter P.; Hall, Paul S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4095-2024

Articles | Volume 17, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4095-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4095-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 10

Model evaluation paper

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26 May 2024

Model evaluation paper |

| 26 May 2024

Comparison of the Coastal and Regional Ocean COmmunity model (CROCO) and NCAR-LES in non-hydrostatic simulations

Xiaoyu Fan, Baylor Fox-Kemper, Nobuhiro Suzuki, Qing Li, Patrick Marchesiello, Peter P. Sullivan, and Paul S. Hall

Data sets

Data for Comparison of the coastal and regional ocean community model (CROCO) and NCAR-LES in non-hydrostatic simulations Xiaoyu Fan et al. https://doi.org/10.26300/vpdb-v266

Model code and software

CROCO code as used in "Comparison of the Coastal and Regional Ocean Community Model (CROCO) and NCAR-LES in Non-hydrostatic Simulations" X. Fan et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8431670

NCAR-LES code as used in "Comparison of the Coastal and Regional Ocean Community Model (CROCO) and NCAR-LES in Non-hydrostatic Simulations" X. Fan et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8431732

Interactive computing environment

Short summary

Simulations of the oceanic turbulent boundary layer using the nonhydrostatic CROCO ROMS and NCAR-LES models are compared. CROCO and the NCAR-LES are accurate in a similar manner, but CROCO’s additional features (e.g., nesting and realism) and its compressible turbulence formulation carry additional costs.