Simulation of seasonal variations of the Caspian Sea level using parallel computations

The Caspian Sea level and flow velocity are calculated with a three-dimensional baroclinic model with free surface using the reanalysis data on meteorological variables for 1948–2004. The results are compared with the data on the sea level observations at the coastal stations. It is shown that the model adequately reproduces intraannual changes of the sea level. For effective computations with multiprocessor computers, a parallel model version is developed, which has a significant advantage of the usual version in the computation speed.