My group develops and applies the multi-scale coastal ocean model SLIM (www.slim-ocean.be). SLIM is an unstructured-mesh hydrodynamic model that can seamlessly simulate flows from the river to the coastal ocean. It relies on the Discontinuous Galerkin finite element method to achieve unprecedented accuracy, even for very complex coastlines and bathymetry.
SLIM is typically used with Copernicus Marine Models outputs on the open boundaries and is then able to downscale the ocean circulation from a resolution of a few km to less than 100m. SLIM is therefore a perfect tool to downscale CMEMS ocean products down to the scale of local users. SLIM is currently used in the North Sea and in the Black Sea. Outside of European waters, it has already been used in the Great Barrier Reef (Australia), the Florida Reef Tract, the Congo river estuary, the Persian/Arabian Gulf and in many other regions!
PA5 - Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) test use cases at EU sea-basins and the Atlantic Ocean
We are looking for projects interested in developing the next generation of digital twins of the ocean that would be able to simulate currents, waves and transport at scale of ~100m. We have extensive experience with wave-current interactions and transport/dispersal modelling for e.g. sediment plumes, oil spills and biological material. We also have experience in developing web-based marine modelling interfaces (see https://sealab.be).
digital twin, digital twin of the ocean, marine modelling, model, multiscale, web-based interface, cloud computing, oil spill, sediment plumes, environmental impact assessment
I will be attending the following conferences in the coming months: - EGU general assembly (Vienna, 23-29 April, https://egu23.eu) - Ocean colloquium on machine learning and data analysis in oceanography (Liège, 8-12 May, https://www.ocean-colloquium.uliege.be) - ICES conference on Human Impacts on Marine Functional Connectivity (Sesimbra, 22-25 May, https://www.ices.dk/events/symposia/ImpactsMFC/)