TRACMASS—A Lagrangian Trajectory Model

Kristofer Döös (), Joakim Kjellsson () and Bror Jönsson ()
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Kristofer Döös: Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology, Bolin Centre for Climate Research
Joakim Kjellsson: Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology, Bolin Centre for Climate Research
Bror Jönsson: Princeton University, Department of Geosciences

Chapter Chapter 7 in Preventive Methods for Coastal Protection, 2013, pp 225-249 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A detailed description of the Lagrangian trajectory model TRACMASS is presented. The theory behind the original scheme for steady state velocities is derived for rectangular and curvilinear grids with different vertical coordinates for the oceanic and atmospheric circulation models. Two different ways to integrate the trajectories in time in TRACMASS are presented. These different time schemes are compared by simulating inertial oscillations, which show that both schemes are sufficiently accurate not to deviate from the analytical solution. The TRACMASS are exact solutions to differential equations and can hence be integrated both forward and backward with unique solutions. Two low-order trajectory subgrid parameterizations, which are available in TRACMASS, are explained. They both enable an increase of the Lagrangian dispersion, but are, however, too simple to simulate some of the Lagrangian properties that are desirable. The mass conservation properties of TRACMASS are shown to make it possible to follow the water or air masses both forward and backward in time, which also opens up for all sorts of calculations of water/air mass exchanges as well as Lagrangian stream functions.

Keywords: General Circulation Model; Volume Transport; Inertial Oscillation; Surface Drifter; Curvilinear Grid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00440-2_7

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