MPAS Ocean Task List

Near Term Tasks:

Release 3.0 tasks:

1. Test GM, merge onto develop
2. Test KPP, merge onto develop
3. Init_core branch: merge changes outside of mode_init directory (mode_init is not released)
4. Update code based on var_pools
5. Update registry to use new stream definitions
6. User's guide:
   • Reformat for multiple modes
   • Add text for new namelist groups, particularly analysis members
   • Proof read
7. Simulations:
   • Decide on any new test cases we want to include (SOMA, etc)
   • After code freeze, create standard domains with init core
   • run simulations with standard domains for user download.
8. Update web-site
9. Paraview catalyst (in-situ visualization, in framework)
10. Remove PBC alteration and Resting Thickness creation from forward mode.
11. Pressure gradient correction for nonlinear EOS.
12. Analysis members: create as time permits
    • zonal means (global)
    • means over regions
    • cross-sections
    • transports through sections
    • heat transport
    • MOC

On Going Tasks for 2014

1. restructure MPAS data into variable pools
2. Implement run-time I/O, including multiple streams
3. Completion Phase I of Ocean Analysis Core (MPAS-OAC)
4. Completion Phase II of MPAS-OAC
5. Complete MPAS-O/POP/AWI/ROMS comparison with SOMA test case
6. Implement and test hybrid vertical grid generator
7. Implement performance metrics and tracking
8. Implement Eliassen-Palm Flux Tensor diagnostics, analyze eddy resolving simulations
9. Implement Lagrangian particles, analyze eddy resolving simulations
10. Conduct CORE I and/or CORE II simulations with low-resolution grid
11. Implement and analyze alternatives to standard eddy parameterizations
12. MPAS-Paraview run-time adapter

Future Tasks for Consideration

1. Tracer budget diagnostics
2. Design of time/space filters applied to output streams
3. Redesigning of front end system: grid generation through initial conditions
4. Objectively constructed bathymetry
5. Water mass identification
6. MOC diagnostics
7. Space/time averaging for user-defined regions
8. Arbitrary x-z cross sections where x is any arc of great circle
9. Efficiency: Increase halo size, reduce communication. Have MPAS 'count' number of halo rings required upon init, and set halo size accordingly.

Link to more in-depth documents: 2014 MPAS-Ocean Plan (breakdown of staffing, funding, priorities)