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GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 1849-1871Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-11-1849-2018
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- US Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
- National Ocean Partnership Program
- NSF [OCE-1459708, OCE-1061781, OCE-0536572]
- Norwegian Research Council [223259]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [1459708] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We describe and demonstrate algorithms for treating cohesive and mixed sediment that have been added to the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS version 3.6), as implemented in the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave- Sediment Transport Modeling System (COAWST Subversion repository revision 1234). These include the following: floc dynamics (aggregation and disaggregation in the water column); changes in floc characteristics in the seabed; erosion and deposition of cohesive and mixed (combination of cohesive and non-cohesive) sediment; and biodiffusive mixing of bed sediment. These routines supplement existing noncohesive sediment modules, thereby increasing our ability to model fine-grained and mixed-sediment environments. Additionally, we describe changes to the sediment bed layering scheme that improve the fidelity of the modeled stratigraphic record. Finally, we provide examples of these modules implemented in idealized test cases and a realistic application.
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