Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
  • Brief history of POP development
  • Improvements introduced in POP
    • Surface-pressure formulation of barotropic mode
    • Free-surface boundary condition
    • Latitudinal scaling of horizontal diffusion
    • Pressure-averaging
    • Designed for parallel computers
    • General orthogonal coordinates in horizontal
  • POP applications to date
    • High-resolution global and regional modeling
    • Coupled models
  
  
• Installing and Building POP
  • Supported architectures
  • Obtaining the POP code
  • Creating a run directory
  • Building POP
    • Make Procedure
  • Domain decomposition
  • Compile-time options
    • Domain
    • Blocks
    • Coupled model runs
    • Debugging
  • Testing POP
  
  
• Running POP
  • Operational control
    • Processor configuration
    • Input/Output
    • Time management
  • Grid and bottom-topography definition
  • Initializing the model state
    • Temperature and salinity distribution
    • Restart control
  • Computational options
    • Barotropic mode solver
    • Advection methods
    • Pressure gradient options
  • Vertical mixing and convection parameterizations
    • Constant coefficients
    • Richardson-number mixing
    • KPP mixing
    • Tidal mixing
  • Horizontal mixing parameterizations
    • Laplacian horizontal mixing.
    • Biharmonic horizontal mixing.
    • Gent-McWilliams isopycnic tracer diffusion
    • Anisotropic viscosity options
  • Physical process options
    • Equation of state approximation
    • Baroclinic-mode parameters
    • Sea-ice emulation parameters
    • Overflow parameters
    • Passive tracers
    • Topographic stress
  • Forcing options (ocean-only mode)
    • Periodicity of forcing data
    • Temporal interpolation of forcing data
    • Forcing formulation
    • Forcing files
    • Forcing units
    • Updating the forcing values
    • Forcing modules
    • Forcing namelists
  • Running POP in coupled mode
    • Real-time X-window display
  
  
• Model diagnostics and output
  • Output formats
    • netCDF
    • binary
  • File-naming convention
  • Model diagnostics
    • Transport diagnostics
  • Model output files
    • Time-averaged history files
    • Snapshot history files
    • Movie files
    • Current meters, drifters and hydrographic sections.
  
  
• POP tools
  • Visualizing output
  • Transformations from general grids
  • File format conversion
  • Generating grid and bottom topography files
    • Horizontal grid and topography
    • Vertical grid
  
  
• Trouble-shooting
  • Timestep stability criteria
  • Checking the global energy and work balances
  • Getting the right combination of mixing options
  • Getting the right combination of forcing options
  • Properly normalizing input salinity values
  • Running POP on PCs
  
  
• References
• Bibliography