The HYCOM consortium is a multi-institutional effort sponsored by the National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP), as part of the U.S. Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE), to develop and evaluate a data-assimilative hybrid isopycnal-sigma-pressure (generalized) coordinate ocean model (called HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model or HYCOM). The GODAE objectives of three-dimensional depiction of the ocean state at fine resolution in real time, provision of boundary conditions for coastal and regional models, and provision of oceanic boundary conditions for a global coupled ocean-atmosphere prediction model, are being addressed by a partnership of institutions that represent a broad spectrum of the oceanographic community.

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The partnership members are:

• the Florida State University Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (FSU/COAPS)
• the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (UM/RSMAS)
• the Naval Research Laboratory/Stennis Space Center (NRL/STENNIS)
• the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO)
• the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC)
• the Naval Research Laboratory/Monterey (NRL/MONTEREY)
• the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration/National Centers for Atmospheric Prediction/Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch (NOAA/NCEP/MMAB)
• the NOAA National Ocean Service (NOAA/NOS)
• the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (NOAA/AOML)
• the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA/PMEL)
• Planning Systems Inc., Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine(SHOM)
• Laboratoire des Ecoulements Géophysiques et Industriels (LEGI)
• The Open Source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP)
• the University of North Carolina (UNC)
• Rutgers University
• the University of South Florida (USF)
• Fugro-GEOS/Ocean Numerics
• Horizon Marine Inc.
• Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service Inc. (ROFFS)
• Orbimage
• Shell Oil Company
• ExxonMobil Corp.
• the NOAA/National Weather Service/Tropical Prediction Center (NOAA/NWS/TPC)
• the NOAA/National Weather Service/Ocean Prediction Center (NOAA/NWS/OPC)
• the University of Michigan
• the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI).