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Advection methods

code

ocean tracers

ocean momentum

sea ice & snow

AWI

FCT (Gerdes, Koberle, Willebrand, 1991)

centered difference

corrected upstream (Smolarkiewicz, 1983)

GSFC

Lin et al 1994

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 DRAKKAR

 TVD

TVD

 2nd order moments (Prather, 1986)

OCMMG

linear FE

upstream viscosity

upstream + remap

LANL

3rd order upwind

centered difference

incremental remapping (Lipscomb & Hunke, 2004)

LU

modified Prather SOM

centered difference

modified Prather SOM

NERSC

MPDATA (Smolarkiwicz, 1984)

PV-conserving (Sadourny, 1975)

3rd order WENO (Jiang & Shu, 1996)

NPS

centered difference

centered difference

centered difference

NYU

MPDATA (Smolarkiwicz, 1984)

PV-conserving (Sadourny)

MPDATA. (Smolarkiwicz, 1984)

POL

modified Prather (1986)

centered difference

modified Prather (1986)

FEMAO

upwind streamline

FE scheme

upwind streamline

INMOM

centered 2nd order

centered 2nd order

upwind

RCO

modified QUICK (Webb et al., 1998)

modified QUICK (Webb et al., 1998)

upstream

UCL

centered 2nd order

centered 2nd order

2nd order moments (Prather, 1986)

UW

centered difference

centered difference

centered difference

DAL

 

 

 

FSU

 

 

 

GFDL

 

 

 

IARC-A

UTOPIA + QUICKEST

centered difference

weighted upstream

IARC-B

UTOPIA + QUICKEST

enstrophy preserving

weighted upstream

ECCO2

7th order monotonicity-preserving (Direct space time  with flux limiter) [Daru and Tenaud, 2004]

vector invariant

centered 2nd order

MIT

 

 

 

NCAR

 

 

 

NPI

 

 

 

UMASD

 

 

 

NOCS/ORCA25

TVD

Energy-enstrophy conserving

2nd order moments (Prather, 1986)

MCGU

 

 

 

LOCEAN

centered 2nd order + TVD scheme

centered 2nd order

2nd order moments (Prather, 1986)

IOS

modified Prather (1986)

centered difference

modified Prather (Merryfield & Holloway, 2002)