The GOTM model

Abstract

After presenting the mathematical equations for marine turbulence modelling in chapters 2 and 3 and their numerical discretisation in chapter 4, this all needs to be implemented in a computer code before it is of any practical use. Many of the physical and numerical features discussed in these chapters have indeed been implemented, tested and applied in recent years by the author of this book and his co-workers in the GOTM model. This model will briefly be described here in this chapter. For more information, see Burchard et al. [1999] or at http://www.gotm.net on the World Wide Web. All model simulations presented in chapters 6 and 7 have been carried out with GOTM. Other examples for water column models which are freely available are for example PROBE (see Svensson [1998]) and the one-dimensional versions of the Princeton Ocean Model (POM, see Blumberg and Mellor [1987]) and COHERENS (see Luyten et al. [1999]).