The Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM; Formerly Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model) is a prognostic, unstructured-grid, free-surface, 3-D primitive equation coastal ocean circulation model. The model is developed primarily by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and used by researchers worldwide. Originally developed for the estuarine flooding/drying process, FVCOM has been upgraded to the spherical coordinate system for basin and global applications.
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External links Official UMASSD FVCOM website: "About us". FVCOM website, by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth "Research index: FVCOM". fvcom.smast.umassd.edu. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.