Roadmap for further GOTM releases
 

This is a list of the anticipated extensions to GOTM in the near future.

Physical features:
- convective adjustment as simple mixing parameterization for instable
  stratification
- K-profile parameterization (KPP) for vertical mixing coefficients according
  to Large et al. [1994]
- prescription of horizontal gradients for temperature and salinity
  (and with that density)
- linearization of equation of state

Boundary conditions:
- surface buoyancy flux for buoyancy equation
- surface fluxes (precipitation - evaporation, P-E) for salinity equation
- relaxation of surface temperature and salinity to measurements as simple
  parameterization of surface fluxes

Biological features:
- simple seagrass dynamics according to Verduin and Backhaus [1999]
- simple phytoplancton model

Informatic features:
- reorganization of namelist input
- imposing a new system for time calculation
- restructuring code for easier inclusion of new features