As part of the Humboldt II project, implemented by SUBPESCA-Chile and the Vice Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture of Peru, a training workshop on “Ocean Modeling Using CROCO and PISCES” was held from March 17 to 21 in the IFOP Auditorium. The training was led by Dr. Rodrigo Mogollón of Peru, who is the consultant hired to implement the project “Modeling Climate Variability in Southern Peru and Northern Chile through the Application of CROCO (Coastal and Regional Ocean Community Model) and PISCES Models” (TDR1-GTB3), funded by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This workshop, also supported by the SAPO program of the Department of Oceanography and Environment of the Fisheries Research Division, focused on modeling the oceanographic conditions of the habitat of the southern Peruvian and northern Chilean anchovy stock. It also allowed for a beginning to determine the effect of environmental changes over the last 20 years on the connectivity of early stages of the anchovy between southern Peru and northern Chile.
Participants from the Department of Oceanography and Environment, the Department of Direct Assessments, and the Department of Resource Assessment were trained in setting up climatological and interannual ocean simulations, downloading and preprocessing environmental data to force the simulations, including rivers, biogeochemical simulations, diagnostics, and validation of results.
Links
CROCO – Coastal and Regional Ocean COmmunity model (croco-ocean.org)
