Description
The Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model (MICOM) is an regional ocean
model.
Application Area
MICOM is an isopycnic-coordinate oceanic circulation model formulated
with the aim of simulating thermodynamically and mechanically driven
flow in realistic basins.
MICOM Implementations
There are four implementations of MICOM available here: a
standard implementation that runs on
several types of UNIX computers, an implementation for parallel
computers, PMICOM, and one
for a cluster of Shared-memory Multi-Processor (SMP) machines,
SC-MICOM, that is only supported at
this moment on Silicon Graphics hardware. In addition, a
CKO version is available that uses
the NetCDF format for input and output files, supports nudging on all
four domain boundaries, and removes very thin density layers. This
version has been tested on SGI and DEC Alpha.
MICOM Configurations Database
Configurations of MICOM that are known to work are available
in the
MICOM configurations database.
Note that at this moment, only the standard implementation of MICOM
has been setup to use the configuration files that are stored in this
database.
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