Configuration

Some aspects of the configuration of FVCOM are outlined below. This includes configuring the model grid, its open boundaries and the surface forcing. The configuration steps outlined here often make use of the (FVCOM matlab toolbox) which simplifies the processes. Where appropriate, example code is included to show how to use the relevant tools. Elsewhere, the functions which are required are enumerated instead.

Grids

• Setting up an unstructured grid in SMS
• Scale considerations in grids

Open boundaries

• Generating open boundary forcing for tides only and tides and mean flow
• Generating open boundary forcing for temperature and salinity
• Generating the necessary files to create mean flow at the boundaries

Surface forcing

• WRF model configuration for surface forcing
• Using NCEP reanalysis II atmospheric forcing to create surface forcing
• Using Met Office Unified Model atmospheric forcing to create surface forcing

Rivers

• Generating the necessary files to input river discharge at specific nodes

Groundwater

• Generating variable groundwater input at specific nodes

Nesting and outputs

• Description of nesting requirements/procedures to use structured grid model ouputs
• Configuration of the probes for output time series
• Outputting a subdomain of the main model domain

FVCOM-FABM (ERSEM)

• Running FVCOM-FABM

Lagrangian particles

• Offline Lagrangian run
• PyLag

Tidal turbines

• Configuring the momentum sink paramaterisation

Sediment transport

• Configuring sediment transport

Tips

• Stability and configuration - A list of tips on configuring FVCOM.
• Domain examples - Summary of domain setup checks
• Nested Domain examples - Summary of steps to generate a high res nested domain
• Semi-Implicit - Considerations for using semi-implicit option