List of ocean circulation models

This is a list of ocean circulation models, as used in physical oceanography.

Acronym	Full name
ADCIRC	ADvanced CIRCulation model
COHERENS	COupled Hydrodynamical Ecological model for REgioNal Shelf seas
FVCOM	Finite Volume Community Ocean Model
FESOM	AWI Finite-Element/volumE Sea ice-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
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
SLIM-Ocean Model	Second-generation Louvain-la-Neuve Ice-Ocean Model

Integrated ocean modeling systems

• COAWST: Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Wave Sediment Transport Modeling System ^[5] (uses ROMS as its ocean circulation component)
• ESPreSSO: Experimental System for Predicting Shelf and Slope Optics (uses ROMS as its ocean circulation component)^[6]

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Oberhuber JM (1993) The OPYC Ocean General Circulation Model. DKRZ report 7, Hamburg, Germany, doi:10.2312/WDCC/DKRZ_Report_No07.
5. Warner, John C.; Armstrong, Brandy; He, Ruoying; Zambon, Joseph B. (2010). "Development of a Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere–Wave–Sediment Transport (COAWST) Modeling System". Ocean Modelling. 35 (3): 230–244. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.07.010. ISSN 1463-5003.
6. Wilkin, John; Zavala-Garay, Javier; Levin, Julia. "Integrating modeling and data assimilation using ROMS with a Coastal Ocean Observing System for the US Middle Atlantic Bight" (PDF). Workshop Report: The Australian Coastal and Oceans Modelling and Observations Workshop (ACOMO 2012). p. 3. Retrieved 2016-10-25.