This is a contribution of P. de Ruggiero, E. Napolitano, R. Iacono and S. Pierini. A high-resolution sigma-coordinate primitive equation ocean model (the Princeton Ocean Model) has been implemented in a domain that includes the Gulf of Naples and the nearby gulfs of Gaeta and Salerno.
The model has a horizontal spatial resolution of 1/144° and 40 sigma-levels in the vertical, and takes initial and boundary conditions from a 1/48°-resolution operational circulation model of the whole Tyrrhenian Sea (developed by the ENEA modeling group), which is in turn nested with a coarser resolution model of the Mediterranean Sea circulation (developed in the framework of the EU-MFSTEP project).
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