Ocean Modelling and Forecasting Research Group
The Ocean Modelling and Forecasting Group is a joint collaboration between researchers at the University of Southampton and at the National Oceanography Centre. The group has has world-class expertise in high resolution ocean modelling, including embedded models of marine biogeochemistry and sea-ice. It is also developing innovative models of the climate system.
Research focuses on the changing state of the ocean and its role in the global climate system. Topics of particular interest include:
- the extent to which our models can reproduce the present state of the ocean and its variability,
- the rate at which CO2 is taken up by the ocean, and the biological and physical mechanisms controlling this process,
- the ways in which the ocean may respond to changing climate, and its effect on the climate of Europe.
A major emphasis of current research is the development and implementation of the NEMO global ocean circulation model, which will enable NOCS to play a leading role in strategic partnership with other modelling centres in the UK and Europe. In addition we are studying ocean circulation with the high-resolution OCCAM model, and are developing coupled ocean-atmosphere models (CHIME and GENIE) to investigate past and future changes in the climate system.
