The core of operational oceanographic forecasting system is POM (Princeton
Oceanographic Model) (Blumberg, A. F. and G. L. Mellor, A
description of a three-dimensional coastal ocean circulation model.
Three-Dimensional Coastal ocean Models, edited by N. Heaps, 208 pp.,
American Geophysical Union., 1987). The model ver. Dec-2004 (pom2k) was
adapted to run operationally at IOLR for SouthEastern Levantine shelf in
framework of MFSTEP WP9 - "Forecasting at
the regional scale and modeling at the shelf scale".
System covers domain from 33.50° to 35.66° E and from 31.00° to 33.61° N with
horizontal resolution ~1.5 km. The vertical resolution is 24 sigma
layers. The boundary conditions are taken from ALERMO and
forcing is SKIRON
atmospheric model.
System runs on every Thursday, producing forecasts for 5 days, starting
Wed, 12Z. The results are published on the Internet immediately after
computations are finished for entire period as six hours means.
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