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HYDROMAP generates current and water
level predictions for any coastal waters around the
world.
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Applications for HYDROMAP include:
- Currents for complex
coastline geometry river-estuarine system
and open geometry of the coastal shelf simultaneously
- Current data files for other ASA models
- Hindcast/forecast current simulations
- Educational purposes
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Features:
- Contains ASA's own GIS
- Easy access and input of required data for current
data simulations
- Gridding tools allow the user to create a rectangular
grid system and easily select locales within that
grid structure for finer grid resolutions
- Output of current data automatically linked to
other ASA models
- Variety of hydrodynamic file formats
- Easily interpreted visual displays of animated
currents
HYDROMAP'S advanced gridding approach allows large
areas of widely differing spatial scales to be addressed
within one consistent model application.
Stepwise-Continuous-Variable-Rectangular
grid (SCVR)
- Advanced finite difference nesting structure
- Enables several levels of grid size to be constructed
and executed simultaneously
- Stepwise-Continuous - boundaries between successively
larger and smaller grid sizes are managed in a consistent
integer stepped manner
- Variable - grid-cell sizes are variable over the
grid domain
Hydrodynamic
model
- Continuous vertical profiles to represent velocity,
temperature, and salinity.
- Solves the equations of motion for the water movement
in a single simulation.
Data
required to grid and force simulations:
- Coastline definition to define the land-water
boundary.
- Bathymetry contours or soundings to define
the depth of water cells in the grid.
- Tidal elevation constituent harmonic definitions
(elevation and phase).
- Optional long term wind stress forcing.
- Publicly available sources for required
data are either packaged with HYDROMAP or
can be easily accessed through HYDROMAP tools.
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For more information about HYDROMAP,
please contact Eoin Howlett.
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