POLCOMS

POLCOMS is a POL community model system developed with the assistance of the NERC High Performance Computing Initiative, specifically Mike Ashworth at the Daresbury Laboratory and Icarus Allen at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

Multi-disciplinary modelling is coming of age. The development of observing/monitoring systems coupled with rapid advances in computer power means that near-real time model-based marine management systems capable of monitoring coastal zones and determining sustainability are just around the corner. POLCOMS lays the basis for such a model-based system.

Meteorological forcing Met Office operational forecasting Climatology and extreme statistics Tidal forcing Waves 3-D baroclinic hydrodynamic coastal ocean model ERSEM biology Met Office Ocean Model forcing Fish larvae modelling Contaminant modelling Sediment transport & resuspension

The central core is a sophisticated 3-dimensional hydrodynamic model that provides realistic physical forcing to interact with, and transport, environmental parameters. Integrating from ocean to coast, or vice versa, biological production and the fate of contaminants can be determined.

Documentation on POLCOMS can be found here.