Stennis Space Center
Ocean Dynamics and Prediction Branch


The NRL CARTHE team (Jacobs, Carrier, Coelho, Barron, Hogan, Spence, Ko, Yaremchuk, Shriver) led by Gregg Jacobs are also members of the NRL Ocean Dynamics and Prediction Branch, which has 35 federal employees and 30 contractors involved with 135 active projects competitively funded by the Navy, NOAA, NASA and other federal agencies. Led by Dr. Gregg Jacobs, the Branch has developed numerical codes for two widely used global ocean models (NCOM and HYCOM) including their data assimilation routines. NRL also conducted validation testing of all components of the operational global and high resolution nested ocean model systems run at Navy operational centers and scheduled to be run at NOAA operational centers. Collectively the NRL CARTHE team has published 184 papers on ocean dynamics, numerical models, data processing, data assimilation and forecast capabilities. All NRL team members are accustomed to working in an environment where a larger objective is being addressed by the group, with each member contributing a critical research component subject to strict time constraints. Gregg Jacobs is CARTHE's leader for all modeling activities.