The Virtual Columbia River is a skill-assessed 4D (space-time) simulation environment that offers multiple representations of circulation processes, variability and change across river-to-shelf scales. Circulation includes water levels, salinity, temperature, and velocities. The primary computational engine is the baroclinic circulation code SELFE.
OPERATIONAL PRODUCTS
Daily forecasts – Predictions directed at near real-time scientific planning and interpretation.
Decade-scale retrospective simulation databases – Simulations directed at understanding variability and change in the contemporary system.
Climatological Atlas – Offers insights into multiple scales of variability of the contemporary system, via statistics of multiple indicators.
INTERACTIVE PRODUCTS
On-demand particle tracking – Allows release of virtual drifters.
OTHER PRODUCTS
Process simulations – Simulations addressing hypothesis-driven science questions, typically centered on events and gradient regions
Scenario simulations – Simulations directed at understanding anthropogenic and climate impacts.