ROMS/TOMS Web Sites

David Robertson

IMCS, Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ, USA

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Overview

•User and Forum Statistics

•New ROMS documentation projects

Webcast Presentations

Developer’s Blog

WikiROMS

Future Projects

Step by step how-tos

Tutorial movies and animations

Webcasts

• Recently we began sending forum updates every day that there is a post

• Since we began, only 3 days have passed (including weekends) without a post.

• The forum has become an effective medium for solving common problems.

• The forum allows users to help each other with their applications.

Web Forum

2004 new users: 2042005 new users: 2672006 new users: 244

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Under Development•Model Documentation

Webcast Presentations

Developer’s Blog

WikiROMS

Users Manual

•Tutorials

Step-by-step how-to

webcasts

Videos

Animations

• Test Problems

Original

Text-to-Speech

Tutorials

•Step-by-step how-tos (ROMS for Beginners)

• Animations showing how to build tangent linear, representer, and adjoint models for ROMS

•Videos showing how to set up and run ROMS

•Animations explaining setup, running and post-processing

Unique visitors: 95,682Unique visitors this time last year: 54,813

New visitors in the last year: 40,869

Web Statistics

Users Manual

• Why FrameMaker?

Export both to PDF and HTML

Equation interface

Structuring and rules facilitate uniform updates

Structure facilitates re-organization

Auto-numbering

Cross reference

Dynamic index and table of contents

Code Structure Revision

Three archived CVS branches now exist:•roms-1•roms-2•roms-2-old

Because of the restructuring of the source code into multiple directories, now we have two roms-2 branches to allow comparisons between and old and new versions.

Source Code Browser

• The code browser allows you to navigate through the different algorithm branches and their scopes.

• It contains a clickable tree of all the calls within the code for browsing

• The links provide information about the number of calls to and calls from a specific component of the code

Users Manual

•Changes and updates from the community

• FrameMaker 7.0

• Documents in a common format (.doc, .tex, etc.)

• Email suggestions

• Post Ideas to the “ROMS Documentation” Forum

Users Manual

http://marine.rutgers.edu/po/index.php?page=manual&var=DIURNAL_SRFLUX

Searchable Database

•Changes and Updates

Documents in a common format (.doc, .tex, etc.)

Email suggestions

Post Ideas to the “ROMS Documentation” Forum

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• Website is really just a gateway

CVS repository

Source code browser

Users Forum

General model info and documentation

Source code

Processing scripts

Description

Ocean modeling papers repository

Tangent linear, representer and adjoint animations