Parcels (Probably A Really Computationally Efficient Lagrangian Simulator) is an experimental prototype framework aimed at exploring novel approaches for Lagrangian tracking of virtual ocean particles in the petascale age.
Animation of virtual particles carried by ocean surface flow in the Agulhas Current off South Africa. The particles are advected with Parcels in data from the GlobCurrent Project.
The manuscript detailing the first release of Parcels, version 0.9, is currently under discussion at Geoscientific Model Development and can be cited as
Lange, M. and van Sebille, E.: Parcels v0.9: prototyping a Lagrangian Ocean Analysis framework for the petascale age, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2017-167, in review, 2017.
See oceanparcels.org for further information about installing and running the Parcels code, as well as extended documentation of the methods and classes.