The HAMSOM is a three dimensional ocean circulation model developed by the IFM (Institute für Meereskunde, Hamburg) and by Clima Marítimo (Puertos del Estado, Madrid).

The HAMSOM model is based on the set of primitive equations and uses hydrostatic and boussinesq approximations. It is formulated on an Arakawa-C grid and is based on a semi-implicit scheme. The model can take into account the tides, wind, atmospheric pressure, heat fluxes and baroclinic gradients inside the ocean.

HAMSOM has being applied to a large variety of scales and phenomena, from studies of tides in the Eastern North Atlantic to estuarine circulation in the Ria of Vigo.

This model is the ocean module of the ECAWOM (European Coupled Atmosphere-Wave-Ocean Model). This code, which is on experimental stage, was developed inside a European Mast project and is able to compute the physics of the atmosphere (computed by the HIRLAM model), the waves (WAM model) and the oceans, taking into account their interactions.

Future applications of the HAMSOM model will be high resolution studies of the circulation on the Spanish coasts, important to correctly understand the data generated inside the RAYO project, and the use inside a storm surge prediction system (NIVMAR).

The following links does contain a HAMSOM manual (spanish) in postscript: version compressed with gzip; uncompressed version.

Algunos ejemplos (Imágenes GIF)
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Elevación de la superficie del mar.	Evolución de la superficie del mar.	Simulación del armónico M2..

Algunos ejemplos (Animaciones)
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Animación: Armónico M2 en las costas atlánticas españolas.