TY - JOUR N1 - Copyright© 2007, Australian Computer Society Inc. General permission to republish, but not for profit, all or part of this material is granted, provided that the JRPIT copyright notice is given and that reference is made to the publication, to its date of issue, and to the fact that reprinting privileges were granted by permission of the Australian Computer Society Inc. ID - epprod4224 UR - http://www.acs.org.au/jrpit/ IS - 2 A1 - Roberts, JL A1 - Heil, P A1 - Phipps, SJ A1 - Bindoff, NL Y1 - 2007/05// N2 - The Australian Community Ocean Model (AusCOM) is an initiative by the Australian climate sciences community (including government and academic research laboratories) towards a unified coupled ocean-seaice model for climate applications. The technical configuration and details of the sub-models are presented here. Initial results, and the development of a displaced pole bipolar ocean grid are discussed. An outlook for future model development is given. PB - Australian Computer Soc Inc JF - Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology VL - 39 SN - 1443-458X TI - AusCOM: The Australian Community Ocean Model SP - 137 AV - restricted EP - 150 ER -