The Oslo fjord ocean model: communication and applications

A numerical fjord model for the Oslo Fjord in Norway is developed. The model is built on the ROMS model system and calculates the currents and hydrography in the fjord. In order to receive funding and make sure that the research will be applied outside of academia, the downstream users have to be defined and included. In the research project FjordOs, some of the end users were included throughout the project. This caused some challenges in communication of complex modelling issues, but also several benefits. The end users now know more about how model results may and, more importantly, may not be applied, and the modellers got input on how the results could be presented in order to be understood better by the end users. A few applications were defined at the beginning of the project. As the project evolved, more applications lined up as the end users recognized the potential of the fjord model.