Welcome to POM, The Princeton Ocean Model directory. POM is a sigma coordinate, free surface, primitive equation ocean model, which includes a turbulence sub-model.  It was developed in the late 1970's by Blumberg and Mellor, with subsequent contributions from other people (see history). The model has been used for modeling of estuaries, coastal regions and open oceans.

Copyright and Liability
Support has been provided by ONR and NOAA grants.
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General Information Registration: POM is freely distributed to the academic community (and more recently to commercial users- see Copyright on top of this page). Please fill the REGISTRATION FORM so we can add you to the users list and send you information on model code corrections etc. 

NEW: TOMS- Terrain-following Ocean Model System development initiative

    Meetings  
  • 2001 Users' Workshop (Boulder, Colorado, Aug. 20-22, 2001) Presentations Proceedings (pdf)
  • Sigma Coordinate Ocean Model Users Meeting (Bar Harbor, Maine, Sep. 20-22, 1999) Proceedings ; Group Picture
  • POM98  (Miami, Feb. 17-19, 1998):Proceedings , Group Picture 
  • POM96 (Princeton, June 10-12, 1996):  Proceedings 
    		•  Publications Useful Information for Users
     

    USEFUL DATA SOURCES

    OCEAN FORECASTING SYSTEMS

    OTHER SITES AND TOOLS

  • GOTM- General Ocean Turbulence Model (Burchard et al.,)
  • ECOM-si version of POM (A. Blumberg, HydroQual)
  • ECOM/POM at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (A. Melsom)
  • Tropical Cyclon- Ocean Interaction (I. Ginis, URI)
  • Ecosystem Model (I. Lima, RSMAS))
  • POM in Virtual Reality (G. Wheless, ODU)
  • Visualization of POM (R. Signell, USGS)
  • Interactive Grid Generation Programs (K. Hedstrom, RUTGERS)

    • Research Projects Using POM at Princeton University

    More information on the research activities can be found HERE.

    Images

    How it all started... (cartoon)

    Curvilinear orthogonal grids used to study the Atlantic ocean.

    Simulations of the Gulf Stream and the Atlantic Ocean.

    COFS: Poster1 , Poster2

    This page is maintained by:

    Tal Ezer (ezer@splash.princeton.edu)
    Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, P.O.Box CN710, Sayre Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-0710