Title Models in MONCOZE Authors

The overall objective of the project is to develop, test and demonstrate a pilot system for mon-itoring and prediction of the Norwegian marine coastal environment. Particular focus is on dominant physical and coupled physicalbiogeochemical interactive processes within the Nor-wegian Coastal Current and along its open boundaries. The tools to understand and model the Norwegian coastal zones including the Norwegian Coastal Current have gradually improved through advances in numerical simulation and high performance computing. Despite these developments there are still major deficiencies in our ability to understand and describe the variability of the Norwegian Coastal Current and its influence on the marine environment and ecology. It is therefore a need to fully integrate and validate an adequate set of numerical ocean models. The three participants in the MONCOZE project each have their own numerical ocean model system which is well known within each institution. The Norwegian Meteorological Institut