Oceanography The Official Magazine of
The Oceanography Society

Volume 19 | Number 1 | March 2006

Special Issue: Advances in Computational Oceanography

On the Cover: Modeled distributions of chlorophyll a from a global biogeochemical model (courtesy of Mathew Maltrud, Los Alamos National Laboratory), with images of (clockwise, from the top): Antarctic krill/Euphasia superba (Alfred Wegener Institute); the Southern Ocean diatom/Fragilariopsis kerguelensis (National Centre for Oceanography, Southampton UK); the copepod/Acartia longiremis (Univeristy of Alaska Fairbanks); the coccolithophore/Emiliania huxleyi (National Centre for Oceanography, Southampton UK); the prokaryotic cynamobacterium/Synechococcus (J. Waterbury, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution); and the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium/Trichodesmium (Doney et al. 2004. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2:457).
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SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES

Modeling Ocean Ecosystems: The PARADIGM Program
By Lewis M. Rothstein, John J. Cullen , Mark Abbott, Eric P. Chassignet , Ken Denman, Scott C. Doney, Hugh Ducklow, Katja Fennel , Mick Follows, Dale Haidvogel, Eileen Hofmann, David M. Karl , John Kindle, Ivan Lima , Mathew Maltrud, Chuck McClain, Dennis McGillicuddy , M. Josefina Olascoaga , Yvette Spitz, Jerry Wiggert, and James Yoder

A New Hybrid Model for Coastal Simulations
By Oliver B. Fringer, James C. McWilliams , and Robert L. Street

An Unstructured Grid, Finite-Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) System
By Changsheng Chen , Robert C. Beardsley , and Geoffrey Cowles

Quantifying Uncertainties in Ocean Predictions
By Pierre F.J. Lermusiaux , Ching-Sang Chiu, Glen Gawarkiewicz, Phil Abbot, Allan R. Robinson, Robert N. Miller, Patrick J. Haley, Wayne G. Leslie, Sharanya J. Majumdar , Alex Pang, and Francois Lekien

Measures of the Fidelity of Eddying Ocean Models
By Julie L. McClean, Mathew E. Maltrud, and Frank O. Bryan

Generalized Vertical Coordinates for Eddy-Resolving Global and Coastal Ocean Forecasts
By Eric P. Chassignet , Harley E. Hurlburt , Ole Martin Smedstad , George R. Halliwell , Alan J. Wallcraft , E. Joseph Metzger, Brian O. Blanton, Carlos Lozano , Desiraju B. Rao , Patrick J. Hogan, and Ashwanth Srinivasan

Coastal Forecasts and Storm Surge Predictions for Tropical Cyclones: A Timely Partnership Program
By Hans C. Graber , Vincent J. Cardone, Robert E. Jensen, Donald N. Slinn, Scott C. Hagen , Andrew T. Cox, Mark D. Powell , and Charles Grassl

Tsunamis and Challenges for Accurate Modeling
By Robert A. Dalrymple , Stephan T. Grilli, and James T. Kirby

REGULAR ISSUE FEATURES
Special Issue Guest Editors

Terri Paluszkiewicz, Office of Naval Research

Sponsors

We would like to thank the Office of Naval Research-National Oceanographic Partnership Program for sponsoring this issue of the magazine.