Israel Oceanographic & Limnologic Research - Israel Marine Data Center (ISRAMAR)

SELIPS - South Eastern Levantine Israeli Prediction System
System Description

SELIPS is a forecasting system meant to produce daily forecasts of temperature, salinity and sea currents in the coastal zone of the south eastern corner of the Levantine Basin.
SELIPS is based on:

POM: a 3D numeriacl model for the simulation of ocean dynamics.
VIFOP: a software package used in SELIPS to reduce the amplitude of numerical waves created during the initialization proccess.
A modified version of the OceanVar code: an oceanographic 3D variational data assimilation scheme.

SELIPS is one way nested to ALERMO ( which is nested in turn to MFS ) and forced by the SKIRON atmospheric model.

The development of SELIPS begun with the MFSPP project and continued through the MFSTEP and ECOOP projects. SELIPS is run as part of MOON.

Model Domain	East of 31.5°E South of 33.7°N
Horizontal Resolution	0.01°E x 0.00833°N (roughly 950m)
Vertical Grid	27 sigma layers
Forecast Renge	96 hours starting from 12:00 GMT
Initial Condition	The POM model can start from a previous model run which are corrected with data assimilation when data is available. The model can also be started from an ALERMO forecast dataset optimized by VIFOP.
Boundary Condition	Fields of temperature, salinity water current and sea level elevation are taken from ALERMO forecast and used as open radiative boundary conditions.
Atmospheric Forcing	Fields of air temperature, specific humidity, air pressure, wind, total cloud cover and precipitation from SKIRON 0.05° forecasts are used to calculate heat, shortwave radiation, fresh water and momentum fluxes for POM
Assimilated Data	ARGO vertical temperature/salinity profiles through OceanVar scheme GOS SST through Atmospheric fluxes correction

SELIPS - South Eastern Levantine Israeli Prediction SystemSystem Description

SELIPS - South Eastern Levantine Israeli Prediction System
System Description