High fidelity simulation of littoral environments: applications and coupling of participating models

The high fidelity simulation of littoral environments (HFSoLE) challenge project (C75) encompasses a suite of seven oceanographic models capable of exchanging information in a physically meaningful sense across the littoral environment. This project is leveraging and extending state-of-the-art atmospheric, oceanographic, estuarine, riverine, surface water/groundwater, and sediment transport models to provide DoD with the technology capable of rapidly characterizing the littoral environment. Applications of these models include real world scenarios such as predicting the ocean currents off the Spanish Coast after the prestige oil spill and generating diver visibility maps for the Persian Gulf. These models and their inputs have been finely tuned, tested, analyzed, and coupled with the use of HPC challenge time.