About NEMO
NEMO standing for "Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean" is a state-of-the-art modelling framework for research activities and forecasting services in ocean and climate sciences, developed in a sustainable way by a European consortium.
NEMO is distributed under a GNU GPL compatible free licence
Overview
The NEMO ocean model has 3 major components:
- NEMO-OCE models the ocean {thermo}dynamics and solves the primitive equations
- NEMO-ICE (SI3: Sea-Ice Integrated Initiative ) models sea-ice {thermo}dynamics, brine inclusions and subgrid-scale thickness variations
- NEMO-TOP-PISCES models the {on,off}line oceanic tracers transport and biogeochemical processes
These physical core engines are described in their respective reference manuals to cite for any work related to their use.
Additional capabilities
- Create embedded zooms seamlessly thanks to 2-way nesting package AGRIF
- Input-Output through effective XIOS software
- Coupling interface to other Earth system components based on OASIS
- Opportunity to integrate an external biogeochemistry model
- Versatile data interface
- Set of utilities is also provided to {pre,post}process your data
Reference Configurations and Test Cases
Several built-in configurations are provided to evaluate the skills and performances of the model. They can be used as as first easy set-up and as template for setting up a new configuration. Idealized test cases addressing specific physical processes are also available for download.
Publications
| Component | Reference Manual | DOI |
|---|---|---|
| NEMO-OCE | NEMO ocean engine |  |
| NEMO-ICE | NEMO Sea Ice engine |
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| NEMO-MBG | NEMO Tracers engine |  |
Since 2014 the project has a Special Issue in the open-access journal Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) from the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The main scope is to collect relevant manuscripts covering various topics and to provide a single portal to assess the model potential and evolution. Used by a wide audience, numerous associated projects have been carried out and various publications are available.
Consortium bodies
The NEMO Consortium pulling together 5 European institutes plans NEMO sustainable development in order to keep a reliable evolving framework since 2008.
It defines the multi-year development strategy that is implemented by the System Team on a yearly basis in order to regularly release a new version. When the need arises, Working Groups are created or resumed to gather the community expertise for advising on the development activities.