I am the main developer of the AGRIF software. AGRIF is a sofware for the integration of full adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) features within a multidimensional finite difference/finite volume numerical model written in the Fortran language. AGRIF is routinely used in several state of the art ocean models.
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I am strongly involved in the development of the numerical kernel of the CROCO (Coastal and Regional Ocean COmmunity model).
CROCO is a new oceanic modeling system built upon ROMS_AGRIF and the non-hydrostatic kernel of SNH (under testing), gradually including algorithms from MARS3D (sediments) and HYCOM (vertical coordinates). An important objective for CROCO is to resolve very fine scales (especially in the coastal area), and their interactions with larger scales. It is the oceanic component of a complex coupled system including various components, e.g., atmosphere, surface waves, marine sediments, biogeochemistry and ecosystems.
CROCO includes new capabilities as non-hydrostatic kernel, ocean-wave-atmosphere coupling, sediment transport, new high-order numerical schemes for advection and mixing, a dedicated I/O server (XIOS), new online diagnoses, and new options for coastal configurations.
METEODC is based on a new Python library developed by the AIRSEA INRIA team and specially designed for the deployment of numerical computations on heterogeneous clusters of computers. Based on advanced applied mathematics methods, it allows for an efficient parallelization and an original treatment of fault tolerance and load balancing issues. Using a client/server approach, the computations are divided into independent tasks that are distributed over the existing cluster. Almost no changes are required to the original application to take advantage of the Python library. Only a few interfaces have to be developed following the software specifications.