Next training sessions

• 2025, 24-28 November, CROCO Autumn School, Brest, France : informations and subscription
• 2025, 6-17 October, Noumea, New Caledonia : see informations

Past training sessions

2025

• 2025, 10-21 February, Ensenada, Mexico

2024

• 2024, 25 November – 6 December, Cape Town, South Africa
• 2024, 15-19 January Basics, 22-26 January Advanced (ocean-waves), Concepcion, Chile: more information here

2023

• 2023, 13-24 November, Cape Town, South Africa
• 2023, 7-11 September, Barcelonette, France: on-site training (full board week): training presentations
• 9-13 January, Universidad de Concepcion (virtual), Chile: on-line training, basics language : Spanish
• 2023, 16-20 January, Universidad de Concepcion (virtual), Chile: on-line training, advanced features language : Spanish and English
• 28 February, 8 March, 2023, Huinay Seasonal School. Fundación Huinay, Chile. Spanish and English

2022

• 2022, 10-14 October, Barcelonette, France: on-site training (full board week): training presentations
• 2022, 17-28 October, Cape Town, South Africa: both virtual/on-site training: 
  • Basics (first week) training presentations
  • Advanced (second week) training presentations
• 2022, 10-14 January,10-14 January 2022, Universidad de Concepcion (virtual), Chile: on-line training, basics language : Spanish. Training presentations: http://mosa.dgeo.udec.cl/CROCO2022/CursoBasico
• 2022,17-21 January, Universidad de Concepcion (virtual), Chile: on-line training, advanced features language : Spanish and English. Training presentations: http://mosa.dgeo.udec.cl/CROCO2022/AdvancedCourse

2021

• 18-22 January 2021, Universidad de Concepcion (virtual), Chile: on-line training, basics language : Spanish. Training presentations: http://mosa.dgeo.udec.cl/CROCO2021/CursoBasico
• 25-29 January 2021, Universidad de Concepcion (virtual), Chile: on-line training, advanced features language : Spanish and English. Training presentations: http://mosa.dgeo.udec.cl/CROCO2021/CursoAvanzado

2019

• 2019, Brest, France, CROCO training presentations

2018

• 3-6, 8-12 January 2018, Austral Summer Institute XVIII Universidad de Concepción, on-site, Chile. Spanish and English

2016

• 2016, Brest, France, CROCO training presentations

2011

ROMS_AGRIF presentation (Summer School, Toulon, France, 2011) : PDF

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Notes on the time stepping

• CROCO time stepping (Florian Lemarié) : PDF
• CROCO NBQ time stepping (Francis Auclair, Laurent Debreu) : PDF

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Tutorial configurations

Here are provided some configuration examples and associated forcing and output files used for trainings.

Warning: between a few 10 Mb to 100 Gb. Use of wget is recommended

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Some test cases

• BASIN test case
• BASIN (with XIOS)
• Kelvin-Helmotlz intability test case (NBQ)
• Rip Current test case

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Regional configuration (#define REGIONAL in cppdefs.h)

• Input files for BENGUELA_LR configuration ( Y2005M01 — Y2005M03 )
  • CROCO (~350 Mb)
  • WRF (750 Mb)
  • WW3 (230 Mb)
  • TOY-MODEL ( 1.3 Gb)

• BENGUELA region datasets for preprocessing ( Y2005M01 — Y2005M04 )
  • for CROCO_TOOLS
    • atmo. forcings:
      • CFSR (0.75°, 6 hourly, 380 Mb)
      • ERA-I (1/4°, 6 hourly, 110 Mb)
      • ERA5 (1/4°, 6 hourly, 40 Mb)
    • oceanic forcings:
      • SODA 1/2 monthly reanalysis (1 Mb)
      • MERCATOR GLORYS 1/12 monthly reanalysis ( 40 Mb)
  • for REAL.EXE
    • CFSR ‘met’ files (for real.exe) (639 Mb) + WRF grid (geo_em.d01.nc) (1.9 Mb)

• Global datasets needed for preprocessing
  • for CROCO_TOOLS ( 2012/10 — 2013/04 )
    • atmo. forcings (~2Gb/month): ERA5 6-hourly
      • ERA5_201210
      • ERA5_201211
      • ERA5_201212
      • ERA5_201301
      • ERA5_201302
      • ERA5_201303
      • ERA5_201304
    • oceanic forcings: MERCATOR GLORYS 1/4 monthly reanalysis (1.7 Gb/month):
      • MERCATOR_201210
      • MERCATOR_201211
      • MERCATOR_201212
      • MERCATOR_201301
      • MERCATOR_201302
      • MERCATOR_201303
  • for WPS
    • 2D/3D CFSR-v2 grib2 files for 2013/01 — 2013/03 (4.4 Gb/month)
      • CFSV2_201301
      • CFSV2_201302
      • CFSV2_201303
    • 2D/3D CFSR grib2 files for 2005/01 — 2005/03 (3.3 Gb/month)
      • CFSR_200501
      • CFSR_200502
      • CFSR_200503
    • global static ‘geog’ to build WRF grid using geogrid.exe (2.6 Gb)

• Full BENGUELA_LR configuration examples
  • Forced interanual configuration: (1 Gb) Y2005M01-Y2005M03, using the classical framework based on run_inter_croco.bash script
  • Coupled (WRF-CROCO) interanual configuration: (2.1 Gb) Y2005M01-Y2005M03, using the updated framework for coupled simulations based on submitjob.sh script

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Coastal configuration (#define COASTAL in cppdefs.h)

• Coastal configuration : “Vilaine” (38 Mb)

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CROCOlive, tutorials and Docker from A. Sepulveda

http://mosa.dgeo.udec.cl/LiveCROCO/

https://github.com/AndresSepulveda/docker-croco-public/blob/master/Dockerfile