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along lines of constant depth, mixing must be rotated relative to the coordinate grid- a process that can be computationally expensive. By contrast, in codes which represent the ocean in terms of constant-density layers (which represent the flow in the ocean interior much more faithfully)- representation of the ocean mixed layer becomes a challenge.
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and encouraged by community feedback, led to the release of v2.0 (MOM2) in 1995. Pacanowski and Stephen Griffies released v3.0 (MOM3) in 1999. Griffies, Matthew Harrison, Rosati and Pacanowski, with considerable input from a scientific community of hundreds of users, resulted in significant evolution
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at GFDL rewrote the Bryan-Cox-Semtner code in a modular form, enabling different options and configurations to be more easily generated and new physical parameterizations to be more easily included. This version, released on December 5, 1990, became known as Modular Ocean Model v1.0 (MOM1). Further
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near the ocean surface. However, level coordinate models have problems when it comes to the representation of thin bottom boundary layers (Winton et al., 1998) and thick sea ice. Additionally, because mixing in the ocean interior is largely along lines of constant potential density rather than
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MOM has traditionally been a level-coordinate ocean model, in which the ocean is divided into boxes whose bottoms are located at fixed depths. Such a representation makes it easy to solve the momentum equations and the well-mixed, weakly stratified layer known as the ocean
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physical climate model series and the ESM2M Earth System Model. Versions of MOM have been used in hundreds of scientific papers by authors around the world. MOM4 is used as the basis for the El Nino prediction system employed by the
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of the code released as v4.0 (MOM4) in 2003. An update, v4.1 (MOM4p1) was released by Griffies in 2009, as was the latest version v5.0 (MOM5), which was released in 2012.
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MOM3, MOM4, and MOM5 are used as a code base for the ocean component of the GFDL coupled models used in the
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Three-dimensional ocean circulation model for studying the ocean climate system
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system. The model is developed and supported primarily by researchers at the
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Atmospheric, oceanographic, cryospheric, and climate models
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MOM owes its genesis to work at GFDL in the late 1960s by
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Developer(s)
NOAA/GFDL
Stable release
Preview release
Fortran
Type
Computer simulation
License
GNU General Public License
gfdl.noaa.gov/mom-ocean-model
ocean circulation
ocean
climate
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
mixed layer
IPCC
GFDL CM2.X
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Kirk Bryan
Michael Cox
Bert Semtner
Ron Pacanowski
Keith Dixon
Tony Rosati
Charles Goldberg
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Oceans portal
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
"Modular Ocean Model version 1"

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