MARS BASICS & HYDRO

A report Dumas&Langlois(2009) provides a detailed description of the fundamentals involved in the MARS numerical modelling system.

• MARS Overview
  • Strategy of modelling at IFREMER
  • Summary
  • MARS references
• Scientific model description
  • Formalism and hypothesis
    • Governing equations
    • Hypotheses and approximations
    • Geophysical equations
    • Sigma coordinate
• Parametrization and closures
  • Turbulence models
  • Air_sea interactions
  • Vertical boundary conditions
  • Open boundary conditions
  • Moving boundaries
  • Forcings
• Numerical techniques
  • Barotopic-baroclinic splitting
    • Vertical discretization
    • Vertical summing
    • 2Dh model
    • 2D-3D model
  • Numerical schemes
    • 2D time scheme
    • 2D-3D time scheme
    • Automatic time step control
    • Advection schemes
  • Vertical and horizontal discretization
    • Horizontal grid
    • Vertical grid
  • Turbulence schemes
  • Wetting and drying scheme
• Numerical formulations
  • Metrics
  • Turbulence models : nz,kz for Vertical Mixing
  • Parametrization of the bathymetry
    • Note on wetting and drying
  • Parametrization of the run period