Last updated on February 17, 2006.

COCO: CCSR Ocean Component Model

COCO is the ocean general circulation model developed at Center for Climate System Research (CCSR), the University of Tokyo. It's also the oceanic part of the coupled general circulation model MIROC.

Specification

Documentation (PDF 690KB)

You can also get a printed copy (issued as a volume of CCSR Report) by contacting Hiroyasu Hasumi.

Publications

Access

It is not available on-line. If you are interested in using COCO, please contact Hiroyasu Hasumi.

You might think "COCOM" would be a more natural acronym for "CCSR Ocean Component Model." At least, I think so. However, some of the members of the CCSR ocean modeling group (including my boss) insisted that there's a bad image on that acronym, which had been used for "Coordinating Committee for Export to Communist" during the Cold War era. That organization was dissolved after the collapse of the communist bloc, so I personally don't think there's a problem...


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