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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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02 Jun 2025
| OPSR | Chapter 7.2
| 02 Jun 2025 | OPSR | Chapter 7.2
The representation of rivers in operational ocean forecasting systems: a review
Meteorological Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Québec, QC, Canada
John Wilkin
Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Joanna Staneva
Institute of Coastal Systems – Analysis and Modeling, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany
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Joanna Staneva, Kathrin Wahle, Wolfgang Koch, Arno Behrens, Luciana Fenoglio-Marc, and Emil V. Stanev
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Emil V. Stanev, Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth, Joanna Staneva, Sebastian Grayek, Sebastian Grashorn, Arno Behrens, Wolfgang Koch, and Johannes Pein
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Joanna Staneva, Kathrin Wahle, Heinz Günther, and Emil Stanev
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Rivers, vital to the Earth's system, connect the ocean with the land, governing hydrological and biogeochemical contributions and influencing processes like upwelling and mixing. This paper reviews methods to represent river runoff in operational ocean forecasting systems, from coarse-resolution models to coastal coupling approaches. It discusses river data sources and examines how river forcing is treated in global to coastal operational systems, highlighting challenges and future directions.
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