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HYCOM
HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model
The HYCOM consortium was a multi-institutional effort funded by the National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP), as part of the U. S. Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE), to develop and evaluate a data-assimilative hybrid isopycnal-sigma-pressure (generalized) coordinate ocean model.
The hybrid coordinate extends the geographic range of applicability of traditional isopycnic coordinate circulation models (the basis of the present hybrid code), such as the Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model (MICOM) and the Navy Layered Ocean Model (NLOM), toward shallow coastal seas and unstratified parts of the world ocean.
HYCOM is a primitive equation ocean general circulation model that evolved from the Miami Isopycnic-Coordinate Ocean Model (MICOM) developed by Rainer Bleck and colleagues.
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