3.9 Four Layer Baroclinic Ocean Gyre In Spherical Coordinates

This document describes an example experiment using MITgcm to simulate a baroclinic ocean gyre in spherical polar coordinates. The barotropic example experiment in section 3.8 illustrated how to configure the code for a single layer simulation in a Cartesian grid. In this example a similar physical problem is simulated, but the code is now configured for four layers and in a spherical polar coordinate system.

• 3.9.1 Overview
• 3.9.2 Equations solved
• 3.9.3 Discrete Numerical Configuration
  • 3.9.3.1 Numerical Stability Criteria
  
  
• 3.9.4 Code Configuration
  • 3.9.4.1 File input/data
  • 3.9.4.2 File input/data.pkg
  • 3.9.4.3 File input/eedata
  • 3.9.4.4 File input/windx.sin_y
  • 3.9.4.5 File input/topog.box
  • 3.9.4.6 File code/SIZE.h
  • 3.9.4.7 File code/CPP_OPTIONS.h
  • 3.9.4.8 File code/CPP_EEOPTIONS.h
  • 3.9.4.9 Other Files
  
  
• 3.9.5 Running The Example
  • 3.9.5.1 Code Download
  • 3.9.5.2 Experiment Location
  • 3.9.5.3 Running the Experiment

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