This website will soon host an open source code and User manual of a software package called the Connectivity Modeling System (CMS), a parallel implementation of an individual-based model (BiOphysical Larval Tracking Sysem, BOLTS) featuring on-the-fly access of ocean model data using OPeNDAP and statistical interpolation of observations. The CMS has a wide range of applications, from physical-biological interactions to spatial conservation, adaptation, and climate change issues. The long term goal of this project is to make the CMS a state of the art community biophysical model with Lagrangian and Eulerian data assimilation and nesting capabilities.

Release Summer 2010

-   Open source code and manual download by Users

- Illustrations of the model architecture, implementation, computational performance,  and the use of this package

Collaborators

Villy Kourafalou http://coastalmodeling.rsmas.miami.edu

Heesook Kang http://coastalmodeling.rsmas.miami.edu/Models/View/FLORIDA_KEYS

Laurent Cherubin  http://hycom.rsmas.miami.edu/~cherubin/

Robert K. Cowen http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/groups/larval-fish/

Mike Chin http://oceanmodeling.rsmas.miami.edu/hycom/