Educational guide 2023_24 Facultade de Ciencias do Mar

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Ocean equations.	Discretization and introduction of the ocean equations in the model.
Matlab.	Basics of Matlab coding (loops, conditional, input and output of data). Examples.
Numerical integration methods	Implicit and explicit methods. Runge-Kutta, Predictor-Corrector, Leap-Frog, etc.
NetCDF data files.	Structure of a NetCDF file: Global and local attributes, dimensions, data. Reading and writing of NetCDF files.
The ROMS model.	Introduction. Model input structure. Bathymetry, forcing and boundary condition.
Examples with ROMS.	Run and analysis of simple examples.
Nesting with ROMS.	Nested grids: Why and how. Structure, run and analysis of results.
Biogeochemical models.	Examples with simple biogeochemical models. NPDZ and N2P2Z2D2. The PISCES module.