VERMOD Capabilities. VERMOD 1.0 and Future.
Abstract:
The Institute for Naval Oceanography INO has established the Experimental Center for Mesoscale Ocean Prediction ECMOP to facilitate research and development of ocean models. ECMOP aims to take advantage of existing infrastructures to provide support to Navy and academic researchers in an end-to-end model evaluation effort. In addition, if and when necessary, ECMOP performs internal research and development as an adjunct to this support. ECMOP is composed of three functional subsystems, or modules the Verification Module VERMOD, the Visualization Module VISMOD, and the Data Sub-System DASS. This technical memorandum describes the current state of VERMOD, in particular, its statistical and physical criteria for model verification, and the software structural characteristics of the module. Finally, we discuss several of the verification concepts anticipated as future enhancements of VERMOD.