COAWST Modeling System
Training
August 25-28, 2014
at
507 Clark Building
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Quissett Campus
Woods, Hole, MA
August 21, 2014
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Thank you for registering for the 2014 COAWST Modeling System Training. This year the
training will be held in Woods Hole, MA, on the Quissett Campus of the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution, in the Clark Building, Room 507. This room has a large capacity
and should provide adequate space. Here is a location map for the Training:
http://www.whoi.edu/main/quissett-campus
Contact info: United States Geological Survey
Woods Hole Science Center
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598
telephone : (508) 548-8700; fax : (508) 457-2310
John Warner 508-457-2237 (for specifics)
Best airports to arrive through are Logan in Boston, MA, or TF Green in Providence, RI.
There is bus service from those airports to Falmouth, MA via the
Peter Pan Bus service at http://www.peterpanbus.com/ .
Parking available in the Quissett campus lot. We will have stickers for you when you arrive.
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Agenda
- There is a $60 US dollar fee per person. We are able to cover the cost of the room, but cannot
directly pay for the refreshments/snacks at the breaks and Monday night dinner. Please pay
when you arrive. We will take cash, or checks made out to me, as will pay for the food in
advance. I will provide a full list of costs.
- You need to bring own computer (laptop). We will provide wireless internet access and power
supply (international users need to bring plug adapter).
- Attendees are encouraged to become familiar with each model separately before coming. For
example, WRF requires large geo-datasets that need to be downloaded. If you are not familiar
with this model, I suggest you try the online tutorial before you get here, and download those
files before getting here.
- Each day the afternoon sessions will develop a realistic case that will build upon the morning
lectures to include WRF, ROMS, and SWAN. This will provide a step by step tutorial to develop
an application. There will also be opportunity for you to enhance your own setup, ask questions,
share files, methods, interact with other users and developers who are performing similar
applications, etc.
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WIFI:
“Whoi-Meeting” (NOT “whoi guest”) and the password will be:
Warner2014
Presentations: We are uploading all the presentations to the svn site and they can be
downloaded using svn. Make a directory and use the check out command:
svn co https://coawstmodel.sourcerepo.com/coawstmodel/data/training_25aug2014 .
Notice the '.' at the end of the command. This will copy the files to the pwd or you can specify a
full path.
Monday Aug 25
8:00 - 8:30
Registration. Need ~ $60 per person for food: cookout + breaks.
8:30 - 8:40
COAWST overview (Warner)
8:40 - 9:00
WRF Overview (Bruyere, Gill)
9:00 - 9:30
WPS, Functions and How to Run
9:30 - 9:45
Break
9:45 - 10:15 Real/WRF, Functions and How to Run
10:15 - 10:45 Model Physical Parameterization Schemes
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 WPS, Real, WRF Namelists
11:30 - 12:00 Best Practices
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00
WRF - Application, hands on tutorial (Bruyere, Gill)
3:00 - 3:15
Break
3:15 - 3:45
Audience Participation presentations. (Ricchi; Alves; Wannawong)
3:45 - 5:00
WRF - Application, hands on tutorial (Bruyere, Gill)
5:00 - 7:00
Cookout on campus
Tuesday Aug 26
8:30 - 10:00 ROMS Tutorial (Arango)
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:30 ROMS Tutorial continued (Arango)
11:30 - 12:00 Audience Participation presentations. (Xue; Mori)
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00
ROMS - Application, hands on tutorial (Warner)
3:00 - 3:15
Break
3:15 - 3:45
Audience Participation presentations. (de Souza; Felipe; Gronholz)
3:45 - 5:00
ROMS - Application, coupling to WRF (Warner)
Wednesday Aug 27
8:30 - 10:00 SWAN Tutorial (Zijlema)
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:30 SWAN Tutorial continued (Zijlema)
11:30 - 12:30 Audience Participation presentations. (Li; Whitney/Sun; Díaz)
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00
SWAN - Application, hands on tutorial (Warner)
3:00 - 3:15
Break
3:15 - 3:45
Audience Participation presentations. (Guoqiang; Nicholls; Pezzi)
3:45 - 5:00
SWAN - Application, coupling to ROMS and WRF (Warner)
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Thursday Aug 28
8:30 - 9:30
Sediment (Aretxabaleta)
9:30 - 10:00 Audience Participation presentations. (Defne; Natoo; Vieira)
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:45 Coupled system scenarios (He)
10:45 - 11:30 SeaIce (Hedstrom)
11:30 - 12:00 Tools (Signell)
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:00 Audience Participation presentations. (Hackerott; Bonaldo; Safak)
2:00 - 2:30
Test Cases, mTools, Feedback, Discussion Forum, User Manual, etc
2:30 - 5:00
Self guided applications
Friday Aug 29
CLARK 507 will not be reserved for this day. However, we can have some space available at the
USGS office on the Quissett Campus for people who would want to continue their applications
or stick around to discuss issues. Please respond to me that you would like to stay on Friday so I
can get a total number.
Food:
- Snacks are provided Mon-Thurs each day in the morning and afternoon at the Break times.
- Lunch: there are several options. There is a cafeteria on campus called the "Buttery" in the
Fenno House, located about 5 minute walk from Clark Building. It is a smaller facility and serves
salads, sandwiches, hot lunches, etc. They are aware of our group this week. Menu is listed here:
http://www.whoi.edu/buttery/
Other option is to go to Woods Hole where there are several restaurants listed here:
http://www.woodshole.com/restaurants.html
To get to Woods Hole, you can drive or take the WHOI Shuttle (blue van) that leaves Clark
building every 20 minutes. It leaves Clark on the hour, 20 min after, and 40 minutes after the
hour. It leaves Woods Hole at 10,30, and 50 minutes after the hour.
Traveler's note: Monday Sept 1 is a major US Holiday and so the weekend from Friday Aug 29
to Monday Sept 1 will be hectic here. Traffic over the little bridge that holds Cape Cod to the rest
of the world will be extremely busy on Friday afternoon and evening. If you plan to leave the
Cape on Friday Aug 29, we recommend that you depart by noon time to avoid delays.
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Lodging.
The time frame for the Training is during a busy summer season here on the Cape. We apologize
but the cost of hotels is high this time of the year. In the future we can try to hold the Training at
other times. Here are some lodging options:
In Falmouth: (approximately 4 miles from office on Quissett Campus):
- Shoreway Acres, 508-540-3000 - (I like it because it is centrally located to beach, restaurants of
all shapes and sizes, and has indoor and outdoor pool- in case of bad weather).
- Harborwalk (Inn Season Resorts), 508-548-4300, at the head of Falmouth Harbor.
-Holiday Inn (near Coonamessett) and contains Kansas City Steak House 508-540-2000 (indoor
pool)
- Ramada Inn on the Square - near bus station and downtown Falmouth 508-457-0606
In Woods Hole (approximately 1.5 miles from this office). Woods Hole is the headquarters for
Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Marine Biological Labs, and National Marine Fisheries. Also
ferry service to Martha's Vineyard.
- The Sleepy Hollow Motor Inn, 508-548-1986 - on Woods Hole Road, walking distance to
several restaurants and shops and Woods Hole village.
- The Sands of Time Motor Inn and Harbor House - 508-548-6300, 1-800-841-0114 (same as
above).
There is no public transportation for the Town of Falmouth (except for occasional "trolleys" used
for summer tourism), so cars would be necessary.
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Participants
Below is a participants list. If any information needs to be corrected please contact me. If
someone you know thinks they are attending and they are not on the list, please have them
contact me immediately.
Participants (on-site)
1
John Warner
jcwarner@usgs.gov
USGS
2
Cindy Bruyere
bruyerec@ucar.edu
NCAR
3
Dave Gill
gill@ucar.edu
NCAR
4
mingge@ucar.edu
NCAR
5
Ming Ge
Maria Liste
marialiste@gmail.com
US Geological Survey
6
Ruoying He
rhe@ncsu.edu
NCSU
7
Sandro Carniel
sandro.carniel@ve.ismar.cnr.it
CNR-ISMAR
8
aricky84@gmail.com
CNR-ISMAR
9
Antonio Ricchi
Xi Feng
University of Florida
10
Alexis Beudin
feng@coastal.ufl.edu
alexis.beudin@free.fr
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Jeremy Testa
jtesta@umces.edu
Univ Maryland
12
Nicoletta Leonardi
nicleona@bu.edu
Boston Univ
13
Dan Nowacki
nowacki@uw.edu
Univ Washington
14
Kate Hedstrom
kshedstrom@alaska.edu
University of Alaska Fairbanks
15
Rob Cermak
rob.cermak@gmail.com
University of Alaska Fairbanks
16
Rob Hetland
hetland@tamu.edu
TAMU
17
Kristen Thyng
kthyng@tamu.edu
TAMU
18
George Voulgaris
gvoulgaris@geol.sc.edu
Univ South Carolina
19
Xiaodong Wu
xwu@email.sc.edu
Univ South Carolina
20
Mike Whitney
michael.whitney@uconn.edu
University of Connecticut
21
Qiang Sun
Qiang.sun@uconn.edu
University of Connecticut
22
Paulo Calil
paulo.calil@furg.br
Fedreal Univ. of Rio Grande
23
Alfredo L. Aretxabaleta
aaretxabaleta@usgs.gov
USGS
24
Ilgar Safak
isafak@usgs.gov
US Geological Survey
25
NGUYEN NGUYET MINH
minh.nguyen.hus@gmail.com
University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH)
26
Chih-Ying Chen
jhihyingchen.6914@gmail.com
University of Hawaii at Manoa
27
Joseph Brodie
jbrodie@udel.edu
28
Watin Thanathanphon
watin@haii.or.th
29
Worachat Wannawong
worachat@haii.or.th
Univ of Delaware
Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute (HAII)
Bangkok, Thailand.
Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute (HAII)
Bangkok, Thailand.
30
Tom Connolly
tconnolly@whoi.edu
WHOI
31
Paul Acosta
rpacosta07@gmail.com
University of New Hampshire
32
Xiaowen Li
xiaowen.li@nasa.gov
Morgan State University
33
Taka Iguichi
takamichi.iguchi@nasa.gov
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
34
Regiane Moura
refisica@gmail.com
Brazilian National Institute for Space Research INPE
35
Daniela Faggiani Dias
faggiani@dsr.inpe.br
Brazilian National Institute for Space Research INPE
Centre d’Etudes Techniques Maritimes Et Fluviales (CETMEF)
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36
Luciano Pezzi
luciano@dsr.inpe.br
37
Ronald Buss de Souza
38
Luis Felipe Mendonça
39
Melissa Moulton
melissarmoulton@gmail.com
WHOI
40
José Miguel Alves
jmralves@fc.ul.pt
41
Travis Miles
tnmiles@marine.rutgers.edu
Centro de Geofísica da Universidade de Lisboa
Rutgers University
42
Greg Seroka
seroka@marine.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University
43
Z. George Xue
zxue@lsu.edu
44
Ki-Young Heo
45
Jung-Woon Choi
jw_choi@kiost.ac
LSU
Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST)
South Korea
Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST)
South Korea
46
John Klinck
klinck@ccpo.odu.edu
Old Dominion University
47
Junichi Ninomiya
ninomiya@coastaldisaster.net
Kyoto University
48
Nobuhito MORI
Kyoto University
49
Rui Ricardo Vieira
nobuhito.mori@gmail.com
rrvieira@ciimarmadeira.org
50
Zafer Defne
zdefne@usgs.gov
US Geological Survey
51
Angelica Gilroy
agilroy@ucsd.edu
UCSD
52
Alexandra Gronholz
agronholz@marum.de
University of Bremen
53
Robin Topper
r.p.m.Topper@uu.nl
University of Bremen
54
fmemmola@univpm.it
at Università Politecnica delle Marche
55
Francesco Memmola
Evan Gray
evan.gray.04@gmail.com
Univ New Hampshire
56
Rich Signell
rsignell@usgs.gov
US Geological Survey
57
Beatriz Pérez Díaz
perezdb@unican.es
Cantabria University, Spain
58
Hernan Arango
arango@marine.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University
59
Ke Chen
kchen@whoi.edu
WHOI
60
Fernando Rocha
weatherfgr@gmail.com
Rio Grande, RS, Brazil
61
Marcel Zijlema
m.zijlema@tudelft.nl
Delft University
62
Andre Schmidt
aschmidt@umassd.edu
Univ Massachusetts Dartmouth
63
Yan Jia
yan.jia@uconn.edu
University of Connecticut
64
Guoqiang Liu
Guoqiang.Liu@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
65
Daniel Miret
miret.dani@hotmail.com
CINVESTAV, Merida, México
66
Cecilia Enriquez
cenriqz@ciencias.unam.mx
UNAM, Yucatan, México
67
Stephen Nicholls
stephen.d.nicholls@nasa.gov
NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, MD
68
Saji N Hameed
saji@u-aizu.ac.jp
University of Aizu, Japan
69
Tae-hwa Jung
thjung@udel.edu
University of Delaware
70
Ricardo de Camargo
ricardo.camargo@iag.usp.br
Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
71
Davide Bonaldo
davide.bonaldo@ve.ismar.cnr.it
CNR-ISMAR
72
Salme Cook
sc10@wildcats.unh.edu
Univ New Hampshire
73
Nilima Natoo
nnatoo@marum.de
Universität Bremen
74
João A. Hackerott
joao.hackerott@gmail.com
Brazilian National Institute for Space Research INPE
75
John Wilkin
wilkin@marine.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University
ronald@dsr.inpe.br
felipe.mendonca@ufrgs.br
kyheo21@kiost.ac
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Brazilian National Institute for Space Research INPE
Southern Regional Center, National Institute for Space
Research (INPE) Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
CIIMAR-Madeira
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Thiago Silva
Federal University of Pernambuco, Brasil
Keith Hines
thiago.luiz.lx@gmail.com
hines@polarmet1.mps.ohiostate.edu
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Lesheng Bai
bailesheng@hotmail.com
Ohio State University
79
Shuguang Wang
sw2526@columbia.edu
Columbia University
80
William Oestreich
woestreich@usgs.gov
WHOI
81
Andre Rodrigues
androd@udel.edu
Univ Delaware
Ohio State University
Participants (webex)
1
Il-Ju Moon
ijmoon@jejunu.ac.kr
Jeju(Cheju) National University
2
DJ Kobashi
d.kobashi@tamu.edu
TAMU
3
Muralidhar Adakudlu
muralidhar.adakudlu@uni.no
Uni Climate and Bjerknes Centre
4
Celso Ferreira
cferrei3@gmu.edu
George Mason University
5
Alice Goward Brown
a.j.gowardbrown@bangor.ac.uk
Bangor University
6
Mike Dinniman
msd@ccpo.odu.edu
Old Dominion University
7
Jorge Navarro
jorge.navarro@ciemat.es
CIEMAT
8
Phil Moore
PHIL@mailbox.sc.edu
Univ South Carolina
9
Sumit Dandapat
sumit@coral.iitkgp.ernet.in
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
10
Ruoying He Group
rhe@ncsu.edu
North Carolina State Univ.
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Nikhil Garg
NIKHIL003@e.ntu.edu.sg
Nanyang Technology Univ
12
Rui Caldeira
islandwakes@gmail.com
CIIMAR-Madeira
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14
Joao Souza
Maitane Olabarrieta
jsouza@soest.hawaii.edu
maitane.olabarrieta@essie.ufl.edu
Univ Hawaii
Univ Florida
15
Sarah Giddings
sarahgid@ucsd.edu
UCSD
16
Xiufeng Yang
xfyang@gatech.edu
17
Hak Soo Lim
hslim@kiost.ac
Georgia Tech
Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technolog
South Korea
18
Nirnimesh Kumar
n2kumar@ucsd.edu
UC San Diego, Scripps
19
Gino A. Passalacqua
gpassala@ucsd.edu
UCSD
20
Hatsue Takanaca de Decco
hatsue@lamce.coppe.ufrj.br
Brazilian National Institute for Space Research
We will establish a webex session so that non-local participants can watch and listen, as well as
to record all the presentations. International callers can try it with skype and gmail as well as toll
calls to connect. All webex participants will receive a separate email with login and phone
information. Both audio and video webex will be recorded and available for future playback.
From all USGS locations, dial 703-648-4848
From nonDOI locations, dial toll free 855-547-8255
After the voice prompt, please enter the Conference Security Code 30681661 followed by the #
key. You will hear a tone confirming that you have successfully joined the conference call. If
you weren't successful, you will hear another voice prompt with instructions.
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Oral presentations requested so far:
1) Antonio Ricchi: A Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean modelling system to investigate the
exceptional Winter 2012 conditions in the Northern Adriatic Sea.
2) José Miguel Alves: Coastal upwelling off western Iberia.
3) Worachat Wannawong: An Application of Air-Sea Model Components in the Coupled OceanAtmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) Modeling System Over an Indochina
Peninsular Sub-region: Impact of high spatiotemporal SST on WRF model in
precipitation prediction
4) Z. George Xue: Mekong Shelf Sediment
5) Nobuhito Mori: Impact of surface bulk flux parameterizations under typhoon condition
6) Zafer Defne: Hydrodynamic modeling of Barnegat Bay.
7) Ronald Buss de Souza: Combining in situ, satellite and modelling data for studying the air-sea
interaction in the South Atlantic Ocean.
8) Luiz Felipe: oral presentation.
9) Alexandra Gronholz: assess wind-induced coastal changes, looking at historical and future
strong storm events in the North Sea region and their impacts on sediment transports and
distributions.
10) Xiaowen Li: simulate MJO initiation and propagation in the Indian Ocean.
11) Mike Whitney/Qiang Sun: oral presentation
12) Beatriz Pérez Díaz: Using COAWST in the development of an oil spill risk management
system at Santander Bay.
13) Guoqiang: oral presentation.
14) Stephen Nicholls: Simulations of the future precipitation climate of the Central Andes using
a coupled regional climate model.
15) Luciano Pezzi: Numerical modeling efforts at Southwest Atlantic.
16) Nilima Natoo: Scenarios of future changes in the occurrence of extreme storm surges - An
application of COAWST to Southwest Pacific Ocean region
17) Ricardo Vieira:
18) João A. Hackerott: Near-surface wind changes due to strong mesoescale SST gradient.
19) Davide Bonaldo: Coupled simulation on the Adriatic Sea.
20) Ilgar Safak:
21) open.
Poster presentations requested so far:
1) Francesco Memmola:
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Tutorial Suggestions:
- To know the results of bad configurations (sigma coordinate and etc).
- More about setup of lateral boundary conditions.
- How are the surface latent and sensible heating calculated in WRF, ROMS, and SWAN,
respectively? How does COAWST model make them consistent? Will they work for any WRF
surface layer options? Or for a particular scheme? Any plan to add new surface schemes taking
advantage of SWAN simulated wave structure?
- Would like to see a realistic application of combined COAWST model with all model
components
- Efficient running of COAWST model – using scripts to run the model. Also has there been any
push to get ROMS/SWAN input from other more easily accessible programming languages (i.e.,
python, IDL, etc.)?
- Model resolution. Say for example I have a 27 km WRF model simulation over the Gulf
Stream. How do I know what resolution to run ROMS and SWAN? Is their guidance or a rule of
thumb.
- Understanding what happens to the ROMS SST data, once it is brought into the WRF model.
My interest here lies in that when the SST interpolation method is changed in Registry.EM the
handling of SST varies in WRF. For example, if I have a two domain WRF simulation with the
SST option selected in and I used the p2c interpolation with 2-way nest interaction, then the SST
data in domain 1 is overwritten at every wrflowbdy interval. Interested in a full explanation as to
the difference between TSK (skin temp) and SST in WRF and how ROMS is used to update
TSK and SST in WRF. When coupling does ROMS alter both or is one later interpolated to the
other? Is TSK or SST used for heat fluxes in WRF? Also how should the WRF model feedback
be configured in coupled model runs?
- Available data sources for atmosphere and ocean model input. It would be interesting to see
what data input sources are current being used in COAWST. For example, in my own research I
am using CMIP5 model data for input to the ocean and atmosphere. I would guess others have
likely run COAWST using ocean data aside from HyCOM and atmosphere data outside of
NCAR?
- Building ROMS model grids without Seagrid. There are matlab scripts to generate ROMS
model grids from WRF input files, but these files lack information such as bathymetry amongst
other variables. From where can we get these missing data?
- Demonstrate how to generate input file for WRF, ROMS, SWAN using the scripts included
with COAWST.
- It would be nice to see some practical examples of grid refinement and get to know if there is
any development about composite grids.
- ROMS nesting sub-domains
- ROMS forcing with GOM i.e. Mercator (as we do in our forecasting system)
- Is there pre-prepared forecasting routines for COAWST ?
- Can COAWST be used for climate modeling?
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