Template:SMS at a glance models

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• SMS is a graphical interface that supports many numeric models
• The models were developed by government or private entities
• Hydrodynamic models compute water surface elevations and velocities
• Wave models compute wave characteristics
• Genesis is a shoreline model that predicts how the coastline will move based upon long term wave information
• PTM tracks particle positions through time based upon hydrodynamics and wave effects