During the ForCoast project, seamod.ro implemented a high-resolution coupled physical-biogeochemical model of the North-Western Shelf (NWS) of the Black Sea, and of the Romanian coastal zone. The system was then upgraded with funding from the CMEMS User Uptake projects. The forecasting system contains multiple nested grids. The physical model is now NEMO 4.2. SWAN is used for waves. A map server (with plots of the latests operational forecasts) is hosted at the Romanian National Institute for Marine Research (syroco.rmri.ro). The full, original forecasts are available from our ERDDAP server, where you can see maps, download netcdf files, and more!
2023/12/20: a new version of the Romanian Coastal model is developed, based on NEMO 4.2
2020/04/25: a new high-resolution forecasting system of the North-Western Shelf, based on the NEMO 3.6 hydrodynamical model coupled with the BAMHBI biogeochemical model, is built
2017/03/01: after 6 years of free daily analysis and forecasts, the system is brought offline due to redundancy with CMEMS
2015: published the forecasting system validation in an Ocean Modelling paper.
2014/01/14: transformed the deterministic system into an ensemble forecasting system, and replaced the data assimilation method by an Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF)
2013/01/09: added daily assimilation of T/S profiles from ARGO floats, and of satellite SST, using a fixed-base SEEK filter
2012/02/01: discovered a problem with the HYCOM data retrieval script; some initial conditions might have been erroneous. Downloading all HYCOM data again, and rerunning all model simulations up to today.
2012/01/31: automated download of MyOcean data relative to the Black Sea (SST, SLA tracks, MHI forecasts): completed scripts, crontabbed
2012/01/28: download of ECMWF historic atmospheric fields for comparison with NCEP data: completed script
2011/12/21: GHER3D model scripted to run daily after NCEP data download is completed. The script does the following:
- check for initial condition presence,
- check for atmospheric forcings,
- run the model two times, 1 day with a 5-minute timestep, then 7 days with a 10-minute timestep,
- check for success,
- put forecasts online on the THREDDS server,
- generate 2 animated gifs and put online.
seamod.ro/Gher ver. 1.0, completed scripts, crontabbed
2011/12/20: automated download of HYCOM model data relative to the Black Sea (OpenDAP): completed scripts, crontabbed
2011/10/17: automated download of NCEP atmospheric data relative to the Black Sea: completed scripts, crontabbed
2011/10/09: automated download of Coriolis data relative to the Black Sea (ARGO profiles): completed scripts, crontabbed