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==Columbia River estuary and plume==
'''Research Team''' 
OHSU: Antonio Baptista, Joseph Zhang, Nate Hyde, Paul J. Turner, Charles Seaton 

'''Projection description''' 
Columbia River estuary and plume circulation presents a formidable challenge for hydrodynamic models due to the interaction between strong tides, meteorological forcing, high river discharge, and strong stratification. SELFE was originally developed to address these challenges and some details can be found in the SELFE paper.

The SELFE-enabled virtual Columbia River is a skill-assessed 4D (space-time) simulation environment that offers multiple representations of circulation processes, variability and change across river-to-shelf scales. Circulation includes water levels, salinity, temperature, and velocities. 

[http://www.stccmop.org/datamart/virtualcolumbiariver '''Project web site'''] 
[http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ofs/creofs/creofs.html '''SELFE-enabled Columbia River forecast system at NOAA'''] 

'''Related publications''' 
<UL>
<LI>Burla, M., Baptista, A.M. Zhang, Y., and Frolov, S. (2010) Seasonal and inter-annual variability of the Columbia River plume: a perspective enabled by multi-year simulation databases. Journal of Geophysical Research: special issue on NSF RISE project, 115, C00B16.
<LI>Frolov, S., Baptista, A.M., Zhang, Y., and Seaton, C. (2009) Estimation of Ecologically Significant Circulation Features of the Columbia River Estuary and Plume Using a Reduced-Dimension Kalman Filter. Continental Shelf Research, 29(2), 456-466.
<LI>Frolov, S., A.M. Baptista, M. Wilkin, (2008). Optimizing Placement of Fixed Observational Sensors in a Coastal Observatory, Continental Shelf Research, 28(19) 2644-2659.
<LI>Zhang, Y. and Baptista, A.M. (2008) "SELFE: A semi-implicit Eulerian-Lagrangian finite-element model for cross-scale ocean circulation", Ocean Modelling, 21(3-4), 71-96.
</UL>

'''Sample images''' 

Fig. 1 shows the Columbia River plume in 3D view forecasted by SELFE.
[[File:Virtual-CR.png|thumb|center|Fig. 1 3D view of the Columbia River plume]] 

==SESAME==
[http://sesame.noaa.gov/sesame.html '''Project web site'''] 

==SURA==

'''Research Team''' 
VIMS: Harry Wang, Yi-Cheng Teng, Yan-qiu Meng, Joseph Zhang 
OHSU: Joseph Zhang 

'''Projection description''' 

SELFE is being used in an IOOS sponsored super-regional testbed for coastal inundation, led by Dr. Rick Luettich (UNC). The testbed focuses on two coastal regions that are prone to inundation hazard: Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Maine. 

[http://testbed.sura.org/node/554 '''Project web site'''] 
'''Related publications''' 
<UL>
<LI> Teng, Y.C., Wang, H.V., Zhang, Y., Roland, A. (to be submitted) The effect of bottom boundary layer dynamics on the forerunner simulation during Hurricane Ike in the Gulf of Mexico.
<LI>Roland, A., Zhang, Y., Wang, H.V., Meng, Y., Teng, Y., Maderich, V., Brovchenko, I., Dutour-Sikiric, M. and Zanke, U. (2012) A fully coupled wave-current model on unstructured grids, Journal of Geophysical Research- Oceans, 117,C00J33,doi:10.1029/2012JC007952.
<LI>Cho, K.H. Wang, H.V., Shen, J., Valle-Levinson, A. and Teng, Y.C. (2012) A modeling study on the response of the Chesapeake Bay to Hurricane Events of Floyd and Isabel. Ocean Modeling, vol. 49-50, pp. 22-46.
</UL>
'''Sample images''' 
Fig. 2 shows an example application of the fully coupled SELFE-WWM and a simple sediment model to hurricane Ike (2008) in Gulf of Mexico. The full results are being published (Teng et al. 2012).
[[File:SURA-Ike-YC.jpg|thumb|center|Fig. 2 Domain used to simulate hurricane Ike in Gulf of Mexico. The comparison plot shows the primary surge and forerunner simulated with different physical formulations (c/o Y.C. Teng)]]
 

==Marine Submersion (Xynthia Storm Surge)==
'''Research Team''' 
DPL: Xavier Bertin, Kai Li, Aron Roland, Nicolas Bruneau, Jean-François Breilh et al. 
 
'''Projection description''' 
In February 2010, the storm Xynthia hit the central part of the Bay of Biscay severely. The storm surge locally exceeded 1.5m (Bertin et al., 2011) and peaked at the same time as a high spring tide, causing the flooding of large areas of the low-lying coast. Analysis results show the wave processes are important in the storm surge. The 2DH SELFE with WWM coupled model was applied in the research. And a highly refined flooding multiscale grid was developed to catch the pysical processes of flooding. 

'''Related publications''' 
*Bertin, X., Bruneau, N., Breilh, J., Fortunato, A. and Karpytchev, M., (2011) [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1463500311001776 Importance of wave age and resonance in storm surges: The case Xynthia, Bay of Biscay]. ''Ocean Modelling'', 42:16-30.
 

'''Sample images''' 

Fig. 3 shows the simulated water depth in North of La Rochelle during Xynthia of preliminary result.
[[File:Xynthia flooding.png|thumb|center|Fig. 3 Simulated water depth in North of La Rochelle during Xynthia (red line: observed flooding boundary]] 

==Portuguese coastal systems==

There are 3 related projects for this system.

<OL>
<LI> ''A nowcast-forecast system for for Portuguese coastal systems'' 
'''Research Team''' 

LNEC: Anabela Oliveira, André Fortunato, Marta Rodrigues, Alberto Azevedo, João Palha Fernandes 
OHSU: António Melo Baptista, Joseph Zhang, Bill Howe, Paul J. Turner, Charles Seaton 

'''Project description''' 

The goal of this project is to integrate complementary research strengths at the two institutions towards the development of a nowcast-forecast system for
water quality prediction in estuarine and coastal waters. The Portuguese partners will provide the water quality models and
the American institution will provide the innovative nowcast-forecast technology. 

[http://www.lnec.pt/organization/dha/nec/estudos_id/nowcast '''Project web site''']

<LI>''Improvement of a morphodynamic model applied to tidal inlet environments'' 
'''Research Team''' 

LNEC: André Fortunato, Anabela Oliveira, Xavier Bertin 
'''Project description''' 

Tidal inlets are among the most dynamic environments along the world coastlines while social-economic activities are there concentrated. These problems are particularly relevant in Portugal due to its extensive coastline and the existence of many tidal inlets of social, environmental and economic importance. In the perspective of a sustainable development, it is essential to understand and to be able to predict the long-term evolution of these systems. To achieve these goals, one of the most promising avenues is the development of morphodynamic models, which consist of a set of modules to simulate tidal hydrodynamics, wave propagation, sediment transport and bottom evolution. This project aims at contributing to the advance of an existing morphodynamic modeling system (MORSYS2D) that is under development at the host institution (LNEC). 

[http://www.lnec.pt/organization/dha/nec/estudos_id/immatie '''Project web site''']
<LI>''Towards operational forecasting of ecosystem dynamics: Benchmarking and Grid-enabling of an ecological model (BGEM)''
'''Research Team''' 
LNEC: Anabela Oliveira, André Fortunato, Marta Rodrigues and João Palha Fernandes 
CMOP: António Melo Baptista, Joseph Zhang, Bill Howe, Charles Seaton, Paul J. Turner 

'''Project description''' 
This proposal aims to integrate complementary research strengths at the two institutions to improve and validate a sophisticated ecological modeling system for operational forecasting of ecosystem dynamics based on grid computing resources. The Portuguese partner will provide the ecological model and the expertise on grid-enabling of numerical models. The American partner will provide the expertise on parallel computing and the benchmark for validation and inter-model comparison. 
[[File:model-ecoselfe.jpg|thumb|center|Fig. 4 An overview of the ecological model ECOSELFE (Rodrigues, 2008)]] 

[http://www.lnec.pt/organization/dha/nec/estudos_id/bgem '''Project web site''']
</OL>

 

==Tsunami==
'''Research Team''' 
OHSU & VIMS: Joseph Zhang 
DOGAMI: George Priest, Rob Witter, Laura Stimely 
GeoCanada: Kelin Wang 
Oregon State Univ: Chris Goldfinger 

'''Projection description''' 

SELFE has been certified by National Tsunami Hazard Program (NTHMP, 2012) as a tsunmai inundation model, after passing various benchmarks stipulated by [http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/benchmark/ NOAA/PMEL].
It has been used to generate official inundation maps for the state of Oregon, spearheaded by OR Department of Geology ad Mineral Industries [http://www.oregongeology.org/sub/default.htm (DOGAMI)], under the auspice of NTHMP. 

'''Sample images''' 
Fig. 5 is a sample inundation map for Cannon Beach OR.
[[File:CannonBeachMap-draft.jpg|thumb|center|Fig. 5 Tsunami hazard map for Cannon Beach OR, generated from SELFE (c/o DOGAMI)]]
 

[http://www.oregongeology.org/tsuclearinghouse/pubs-technical.htm '''Related web site'''] 

'''Related publications''' 
<UL>
<LI>NTHMP (2012) Proceedings and results of the 2011 NTHMP model benchmarking workshop. Boulder: US Depart. of Commerce/NOAA/NTHMP, NOAA Special
Report 436p.
<LI>Priest, G.R., Goldfinger, C., Wang, K., Witter, R.C., Zhang, Y., Baptista, A.M. (2010) Confidence levels for tsunami-inundation limits in northern Oregon inferred from a 10,000-year history of great earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone. Natural Hazards, 54(1), 27-73.
<LI>Witter, R.C, Zhang, Y., Wang, K., Goldfinger, C., Priest, G.R., Allan, J.C. (2012) Coseismic slip on the Cascadia megathrust implied by tsunami deposits in an Oregon lake. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 117, B10303, doi:10.1029/2012JB009404.
<LI>Witter, R.C., Jaffe, B., Zhang, Y. and Priest, G.R. (2011) Reconstructing hydrodynamic flow parameters of the 1700 tsunami at Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA., Natural Hazards, DOI 10.1007/s11069-011-9912-7.
<LI>Zhang, Y., Witter, R.W. and Priest, G.P. (2011) Tsunami-Tide Interaction in 1964 Prince William Sound Tsunami, Ocean Modelling, 40, 246-259.
<LI>Zhang, Y.L., and Baptista, A.M. (2008) Benchmarking a new finite-element tsunami model on unstructured grids. Pure and Applied Geophysics: Topical issue on Tsunamis, vol. 165, pp. 2229-2248. pdf .
</UL>

 

==Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay Region==

'''Research Team'''

Virginia Institute of Marine Science: Junzheng Zhu and [http://www.vims.edu/people/wang_hv/index.php Harry Wang]

'''Projection description'''

The Chesapeake Bay and the Coastal Bays of the Maryland/Virginia Atlantic shore are highly valuable and productive ecosystems that are increasingly threatened by degraded water quality and loss of habitat due to both anthropogenic and natural disturbances.

In an effort to reverse this trend, federal and state governments have implemented a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program to control point source and non-point source pollution in each watershed.

In order to quantify these controls and better understand cause and effect relationships, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science is developing numerical hydrodynamic and water quality models and linking them together as a tool for predicting and measuring success of the TMDL effort.

Virginia Institute of Marine Science is involved in two TMDL projects in the Chesapeake Bay region:

<OL>
<LI>TMDL scenario development and implementation for the Maryland and Virginia Coastal Bays system.
<LI>Impact on localized water quality resulting from allocation of nutrient loads to dredged material contaminant facilities in Baltimore Harbor.
</OL>

Both projects involve coupling SELFE and ICM (Integrated Compartment Model).

'''Sample images'''

Fig. 6 shows some sample results.
[[File:MDcoast-image.jpg|thumb|center|Fig. 6 SELFE-ICM for Maryland coast and bay]]

 

==Aquaculture and coastal pollutants modelling (New Zealand)==

'''Research Team''' 
[http://www.cawthron.org.nz Cawthron Institute]: Ben Knight 
[http://www.metocean.co.nz/ MetOcean Solutions Limited]: Brett Beamsley 

'''Application description''' 
Aquaculture and other coastal developments in New Zealand have the potential to place increasing pressures on coastal environments. The Cawthron Institute and MetOcean Solutions Limited have been collaborating to produce open-source community models for coastal environments around New Zealand to aid in coastal effects assessments. We are presently utilising and building upon SELFE community modelling tools associated with Lagrangian and Eularian transport for a range of coastal transport applications (e.g. faecal indicator bacteria, nutrients, oil spills). 
We have a number of collaborative projects under-way, but are currently working towards simplifying the set up and analysis of tracers for modelling a range of chemical and biological constituents in aquaculture and coastal discharge assessments. 

'''Sample images''' 

Fig. 7 shows SELFE Matlab GUI (currently under development) with a bathymetric map of the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
[[File:SELFE_GUI.PNG|thumb|center|Fig. 7 SELFE Matlab GUI showing bathymetric map of the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand]]

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		+	==Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident==
		+	'''Research Team'''<br/>
		+	IMMSP (Ukraine): Vladimir Maderich, Igor Brovchenko
		+
		+	'''Projection description'''<br/>
		+	This study evaluates and compares the models used to analyze the transportation and
		+	deposition of radioactive materials that were released in
		+	to the environment after the Tokyo
		+	Electric Power Compan’s
		+	Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident on
		+	March 11, 2011. A Working Group for Model Intercomparison was formed in July 2012
		+	under the Subcommittee of Investigation on the Environmental Contamination Caused by the Nuclear Accident in the Sectional Committee on Nuclear Accident, the Committee
		+	Comprehensive Synthetic Engineering, Science Council of Japan (SCJ). The purpose of this
		+	working group (SCJ WG) is to compare existing model results and to assess the uncertainties
		+	in the simulation results. The emerging knowledge will be invaluable for various applications
		+	designed to mitigate environmental contamination in wide areas. The working group solicited
		+	international colleagues and groups to provide their model simulation results for the
		+	intercomparison.
		+
		+
		+	'''Related publications'''<br>
		+	[http://www.jpgu.org/scj/report/20140902scj_report_e.pdf Report from Science Council of Japan]

	==SURA==		==SURA==

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 ==San Francisco Bay and Delta==
+Bay-Delta SCHISM is an application of the 3D open source SCHISM hydrodynamic and water quality suite to the San Francisco Bay Delta estuary. The project is a collaboration between the California Department of Water Resources and the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS), College of William & Mary.
 [http://baydeltaoffice.water.ca.gov/modeling/deltamodeling/models/bay_delta_selfe/index.html '''Project web site''']<br/>

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		+	[http://baydeltaoffice.water.ca.gov/modeling/deltamodeling/models/bay_delta_selfe/index.html '''Project web site''']<br/>
		+
	==SESAME==		==SESAME==
	[http://sesame.noaa.gov/sesame.html '''Project web site''']<br/>		[http://sesame.noaa.gov/sesame.html '''Project web site''']<br/>

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−	SELFE was used in an IOOS sponsored super-regional testbed for coastal inundation, led by Dr. Rick Luettich (UNC). The testbed focuses on two coastal regions that are prone to inundation hazard: Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Maine.<br/>	+	SELFE/SCHISM was used in an IOOS sponsored super-regional testbed for coastal inundation, led by Dr. Rick Luettich (UNC). The testbed focuses on two coastal regions that are prone to inundation hazard: Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Maine.<br/>

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 '''Projection description'''<br/>
-In February 2010, the storm Xynthia hit the central part of the Bay of Biscay severely. The storm surge locally exceeded 1.5m (Bertin et al., 2011) and peaked at the same time as a high spring tide, causing the flooding of large areas of the low-lying coast. Analysis results show the wave processes are important in the storm surge. The 2DH SELFE with WWM coupled model was applied in the research. And a highly refined flooding multiscale grid was developed to catch the pysical processes of flooding.<br/>
+In February 2010, the storm Xynthia hit the central part of the Bay of Biscay severely. The storm surge locally exceeded 1.5m (Bertin et al., 2011) and peaked at the same time as a high spring tide, causing the flooding of large areas of the low-lying coast. Analysis results show the wave processes are important in the storm surge. The 2DH SCHISM with WWM coupled model was applied in the research. And a highly refined flooding multiscale grid was developed to catch the pysical processes of flooding.<br/>

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 '''Projection description'''<br/>
-SELFE is being used in an IOOS sponsored super-regional testbed for coastal inundation, led by Dr. Rick Luettich (UNC). The testbed focuses on two coastal regions that are prone to inundation hazard: Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Maine.<br/>
+SELFE was used in an IOOS sponsored super-regional testbed for coastal inundation, led by Dr. Rick Luettich (UNC). The testbed focuses on two coastal regions that are prone to inundation hazard: Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Maine.<br/>
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 '''Projection description'''<br/>
-SELFE has been certified by National Tsunami Hazard Program (NTHMP, 2012) as a tsunmai inundation model, after passing various benchmarks stipulated by [http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/benchmark/ NOAA/PMEL].
+SCHISM has been certified by National Tsunami Hazard Program (NTHMP, 2012) as a tsunmai inundation model, after passing various benchmarks stipulated by [http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/benchmark/ NOAA/PMEL].
 It has been used to generate official inundation maps for the state of Oregon, spearheaded by OR Department of Geology ad Mineral Industries  [http://www.oregongeology.org/sub/default.htm (DOGAMI)], under the auspice of NTHMP. <br/>
 '''Sample images'''<br/>
 Fig. 5 is a sample inundation map for Cannon Beach OR.
-[[File:CannonBeachMap-draft.jpg|thumb|center|Fig. 5 Tsunami hazard map for Cannon Beach OR, generated from SELFE (c/o DOGAMI)]]
+[[File:CannonBeachMap-draft.jpg|thumb|center|Fig. 5 Tsunami hazard map for Cannon Beach OR, generated from SCHISM (c/o DOGAMI)]]
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 </OL>
-Both projects involve coupling SELFE and ICM (Integrated Compartment Model).
+Both projects involve coupling SCHISM and ICM (Integrated Compartment Model).
 '''Sample images'''
 Fig. 6 shows some sample results.
-[[File:MDcoast-image.jpg|thumb|center|Fig. 6 SELFE-ICM for Maryland coast and bay]]
+[[File:MDcoast-image.jpg|thumb|center|Fig. 6 SCHISM-ICM for Maryland coast and bay]]
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 '''Application description'''<br/>
-Aquaculture and other coastal developments in New Zealand have the potential to place increasing pressures on coastal environments.  The Cawthron Institute and MetOcean Solutions Limited have been collaborating to produce open-source community models for coastal environments around New Zealand to aid in coastal effects assessments. We are presently utilising and building upon SELFE community modelling tools associated with Lagrangian and Eularian transport for a range of coastal transport applications (e.g. faecal indicator bacteria, nutrients, oil spills).<br/><br/>
+Aquaculture and other coastal developments in New Zealand have the potential to place increasing pressures on coastal environments.  The Cawthron Institute and MetOcean Solutions Limited have been collaborating to produce open-source community models for coastal environments around New Zealand to aid in coastal effects assessments. We are presently utilising and building upon SCHISM community modelling tools associated with Lagrangian and Eularian transport for a range of coastal transport applications (e.g. faecal indicator bacteria, nutrients, oil spills).<br/><br/>
 We have a number of collaborative projects under-way, but are currently working towards simplifying the set up and analysis of tracers for modelling a range of chemical and biological constituents in aquaculture and coastal discharge assessments.<br/>
 '''Sample images'''<br/>
-Fig. 7 shows SELFE Matlab GUI (currently under development) with a bathymetric map of the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
+Fig. 7 shows SCHISM Matlab GUI (currently under development) with a bathymetric map of the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
-[[File:SELFE_GUI.PNG|thumb|center|Fig. 7 SELFE Matlab GUI showing bathymetric map of the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand]]<br/>
+[[File:SELFE_GUI.PNG|thumb|center|Fig. 7 SCHISM Matlab GUI showing bathymetric map of the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand]]<br/>

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 ==Columbia River estuary and plume==
 '''Research Team'''<br/>
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 Fig. 1 shows the Columbia River plume in 3D view forecasted by SELFE.
 [[File:Virtual-CR.png|thumb|center|Fig. 1 3D view of the Columbia River plume]]<br/>
 ==Marine Submersion (Xynthia Storm Surge)==