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Technical Reports of the Meteorological Research Institute

No. 59

REFERENCE MANUAL FOR THE METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE COMMUNITY OCEAN MODEL(MRI.COM) VERSION 3

HIROYUKI TSUJINO, TATSUO MOTOI, ICHIRO ISHIKAWA, MIKITOSHI HIRABARA, HIDEYUKI NAKANO, GORO YAMANAKA, TAMAKI YASUDA, AND HIROSHI ISHIZAKI (OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH DEPARTMENT)


February 2010
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	Preface	PDF[0.56MB]
	Abstract
	References
	Contents
1	OGCMs and MRI.COM	PDF[4.17MB]
2	Governing Equations
3	Spatial grid arrangement and definition of continuity equation
4	Equations of motion (barotropic component)
5	Equations of motion (baroclinic component)
6	Temperature and salinity equations
7	Mixed layer model
8	Sea surface fluxes
9	Sea ice
10	Bottom Boundary Layer (BBL)
11	Biogeochemical model
12	Basics of the finite difference method
13	Tracer advection schemes
14	Generalized orthogonal curvilinear coordinate grids
15	Nesting
16	User’s Guide
17	Acknowledgments