Established in 1990, the Ocean Modeling Group at Rutgers has, as one of its foremost goals, the development and interdisciplinary application of new regional and basin-scale ocean modeling systems, including coupled models for atmosphere and ocean, biogeochemical and ecosystem response. Modeling Software developed by the Ocean Modeling Group and its colleagues has been distributed worldwide to over 800 scientists.

Research:

• Ocean observing systems and data assimilation
• Advanced algorithms for geophysical modeling
• Implementation and distribution of ocean models
• Quantitative metrics for ocean model performance
• Numerical and laboratory studies of fundamental processes
• Coupled modeling of regional climate impacts

• ESPreSSO: Experimental System for Predicting Shelf and Slope Optics
• Philex: Modeling the Philippine Archipelago
• New York/New Jersey continental shelves and estuaries
• CBLAST: Coupled Boundary Layers/Air-Sea Transfer
• LaTTE: Lagrangian Transport and Transformation Experiment
• NEOS: Northeast Observing System
• NENA: Northeast North America shelf model
• PARADIGM: The Partnership for Advancing Interdisciplinary Global Modeling
• The Coastal Gulf of Alaska
• Leeuwin and East Australian Currents
• The California Current System
• The Sea of Japan
• The Adriatic Sea
• Crater Lake