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MPAS-Ocean
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MPAS-Ocean is designed for the simulation of the ocean system from time scales of months to millenia and spatial scales from sub 1 km to global circulations.

MPAS-Ocean has demonstrated the ability to accurately reproduce mesoscale ocean activity with a local mesh refinement strategy.

In addition to faciliating the study of multiscale phenomena within the ocean system, MPAS-Ocean is intended for the study of anthropogenic climate change as the ocean component of climate system models.

MPAS-Ocean is presently developed and maintained by the ocean model development team within the COSIM_ project at `Los Alamos National Laboratory`_.

The primary sponsor for the development of MPAS-Ocean is the `Climate and Environmental Sciences Division`_ within the `Department of Energy`_.

This ocean model is being developed for use within the Department of `Energy's Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)`_.

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Please reference the following manuscripts when introducing MPAS-Ocean:

*   `Ringler et al., 2013`_
*   `Golaz et al., 2019`_

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.. _COSIM: http://climate.lanl.gov/
.. _`Los Alamos National Laboratory`: http://www.lanl.gov/index.php
.. _`Climate and Environmental Sciences Division`: http://science.energy.gov/ber/research/cesd/
.. _`Department of Energy`: http://energy.gov/
.. _`Energy's Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)`: https://climatemodeling.science.energy.gov/projects/energy-exascale-earth-system-model
.. _`Ringler et al., 2013`: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001373
.. _`Golaz et al., 2019`: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001603



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