Particle transport tools

Here you can find Lagrangian (particle tracking) tools available (on-line for some of them) for rapid overview of the transport of your living (or not) particles.

It runs on selected regions from saved flow fields of hydrodynamic model runs.

• The Mediterranean Sea

The Connie tool, from CSIRO that was initially developed for Australian waters is now also running on the Mediterranean Sea (select Mediterranean Sea in the Ocean Currents menu on the top left of the page). It is an interactive web tool that typically takes users less than an hour to be proficient.

• The Bay of Biscay and Mediterranean Sea, or anywhere with your hydrodynamic model outputs

ICHTHYOP is a Lagrangian tool developed by IRD and IFREMER. It runs off-line from ROMS, MARS and OPA-NEMO saved flow fields.

You can download the software at http://www.previmer.org/en/ichthyop for your own applications.

The latest version is able to use PREVIMER model results and real time forecasts through OpenDAP data access mechanism (see access conditions).

• Anywhere with your hydrodynamic model outputs

The Larval TRANSport Lagrangian model (LTRANS v.2) is an off-line particle-tracking model that runs with the stored predictions of a 3D hydrodynamic model, specifically the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). Although LTRANS was built to simulate oyster larvae, it can easily be adapted to simulate passive particles and other planktonic organisms. It is however not available for running on-line.