Update: Community Sediment Transport Model Funded October, 2006

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Update Community Sediment Transport
ModelFunded October, 2006
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Origins of the CSTM

• Community Sediment Transport Workshop,
• Woods Hole, June 2000
• 55 scientists attended (academic, government,
  industry)
• Workshop discusses community models for coastal
  sediment transport, EOS Transactions of the
  American Geophysical Union 81(43)502
• Wide acceptance of a community sediment
  transport model would make an effective tool for
  scientific research. no existing model has the
  features that would allow wide access and
  acceptance by the community freely available
  code state-of-the-art hydrodynamic and sediment
  algorithms with modern, modular coding
  comprehensive documentation and demonstrated
  performance on a suite of community defined test
  cases.

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NOPP Program Tasks

• T1. Science and Technical Management and Review
• T2. Model Development and Coupling
• T3. Software Tool Development
• T4. Algorithm Development
• T5. Community Engagement
• T6. Applications

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Task 2. Model Development and Coupling

• Provides tools for turning model codes into
  components with standard interfaces and standard
  drivers.
• Provides data structures and common utilities
  such as data communications, regridding, time
  management and message logging.

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Task 3. Software Tool Development
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Task 4. Algorithm Development

• Non-cohesive bottom boundary layer formulations,
  suspended and bedload transport (Soulsby
  Whitehouse)
• Cohesive Sediments Erosion, deposition,
  Consolidation and Stratigraphy (Sanford, Blumberg
  Winterwerp)
• Sediment and Optics (Keen Campbell)
• Parameterization of BBL and Sediment Using a
  High-Resolution Two-Phase Transport Model (Hsu
  Traykovski)
• Large Eddy Simulations (LES) for parameterization
  of sediment suspension (Chang)
• High-Resolution RANS model (DUNE3D) for
  wave-current bottom boundary layer (Foster)
• Wave-current interactions (McWilliams, Kirby,
  Roelvink)
• Shoreline boundary conditions (Kirby, Shi,
  McWilliams, Roelvink)

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Goals for This Year

• ROMS_SED available on line
• Work with ESMF developers
• Work with CF Conventions Group, IOOS MAST, and
  ESMF to ensure that developing Grid Standards
  meet needs
• Tool development begins
• Algorithm development begins
• Maintain collaboration with US Army Corps of
  Engineers MORPHOS project
• Preliminary documentation online