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= NPOP Coastal Modelling and Applications Wiki =

The National Partnership for Ocean Prediction (NPOP) is made up of institutions delivering ocean prediction services and research in support of these services. The mission of this partnership is to develop and promote marine products and services, with a focus on national and public benefit. This wiki has been made by the NPOP Coastal Modelling and Applications Activity Group (NPOP Coastal).

Coastal Modelling and Applications
Objectives of this Activity Group are to:
 * 1) Identify best approaches to fill the skills gap of resolving coastal environments in existing ocean models. Coastal areas are strongly affected by anthropogenic impacts and are highly vulnerable to climate change, but they are not well represented by the shelf-wide or global ocean models typically used for climate projections.
 * 2) Create synergies between the groups/scientists that have expertise in high resolution coastal modelling, to share practices, data and modelling skills.
 * 3) Highlight stakeholder requirements as a focus for future model development.

Mailing and discussion list
Please consider signing up to our mailing list in order to keep in touch with the community. We are planning on holding 6 monthly meetings with a combination of short seminars and discussions.

Coastal models
There are numerous coastal hydrodynamic models being developed within the NPOP community. These are often poorly advertised and can be under utilised. This can lead to spatial overlap between models which can perform similar functions. Many coastal models are not run operationally and are often developed for a single purpose.

NPOP Coastal is inviting the community to contribute wiki pages on their models. These may include details such as model resolution and run times, boundary forcing datasets used, as well as difficulties encountered and other modelling hurdles. A suggested template of key information is provided. However, the model description can be as brief or as technical as you like - it's the community's space.

It's hoped that this site will grow into a sizeable database of coastal models and modelling expertise that can be used by the coastal modelling community, as well as other stakeholders interested in what modelling tools are potentially available.

Inclusion criteria
We request that only models that are well developed be listed within this database. A rough inclusion criteria is that at least one of the conditions below should be fulfilled:
 * The model has been used within a peer reviewed publication
 * The output data are freely available and accessible
 * The model configuration is available e.g. through download and/or version controlled repository (e.g. GitHub or similar)

We now have a development section, enabling you to list models that are underdevelopment and do no (yet) meet the above inclusion criteria. Just make sure the page is added to the "Coastal models development" category.

Map indexing coastal hydrodynamic models listed on this wiki
To create a new coastal model page, just type in a title/name below, click create, and start editing. If you would like to index your model using the map above, please email Rory O'Hara Murray rory.murray @ gov.scot a rough ASCII comma separated boundary using WGS84 format.

Note that not all model domains may be shown on the map above. Recently added models are provided in the list below, and a full list of model domains can be found through the following page:

Index to all Coastal models

Recently added coastal model pages
 category            = Coastal models count               = 10 order               = ascending addfirstcategorydate = true 