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3.8.1 Full list of model examples

  1. tutorial_advection_in_gyre - Test of various advection schemes in a single-layer double-gyre experiment. This experiment is described in detail in section 3.11.

  2. tutorial_baroclinic_gyre - Four layer, ocean double gyre. This experiment is described in detail in section 3.10.

  3. tutorial_barotropic_gyre - Single layer, ocean double gyre (barotropic with free-surface). This experiment is described in detail in section 3.9.

  4. tutorial_cfc_offline - Offline form of the MITgcm to study advection of a passive tracer and CFCs. This experiment is described in detail in section 3.20.5.

  5. tutorial_deep_convection - Inhomogenously forced ocean convection in a doubly periodic box. This experiment is described in detail in section 3.15.

  6. tutorial_global_oce_biogeo - Ocean model coupled to the dissolved inorganic carbon biogeochemistry model. This experiment is described in detail in section 3.17.

  7. tutorial_global_oce_in_p - Global ocean simulation in pressure coordinate (non-Boussinesq ocean model). Described in detail in section 3.13.

  8. tutorial_global_oce_latlon - 4x4 degree global ocean simulation with steady climatological forcing. This experiment is described in detail in section 3.12.

  9. tutorial_global_oce_optim - Global ocean state estimation at $ 4^\circ$ resolution. This experiment is described in detail in section 3.18.

  10. tutorial_held_suarez_cs - 3D atmosphere dynamics using Held and Suarez (1994) forcing on cubed sphere grid. This experiment is described in detail in section 3.14.

  11. tutorial_offline - Offline form of the MITgcm to study advection of a passive tracer. This experiment is described in detail in section 3.20.

  12. tutorial_plume_on_slope - Gravity Plume on a continental slope. This experiment is described in detail in section 3.16.

  13. tutorial_tracer_adjsens - Simple passive tracer experiment. Includes derivative calculation. This experiment is described in detail in section 3.19.

  14. adjustment.128x64x1 - Barotropic adjustment problem on latitude longitude grid with 128x64 grid points ($ 2.8^\circ$ resolution).

  15. adjustment.cs-32x32x1 - Barotropic adjustment problem on cube sphere grid with 32x32 points per face (roughly $ 2.8^\circ$ resolution).
    Also contains a non-linear free-surface adjustment version (input.nlfs/).

  16. advect_cs Two-dimensional passive advection test on cube sphere grid (32x32 grid points per face, roughly $ 2.8^\circ$ )

  17. advect_xy - Two-dimensional (horizontal plane) passive advection test on Cartesian grid.
    Also contains an additional set-up using Adams-Bashforth 3 (input.ab3_c4/).

  18. advect_xz - Two-dimensional (vertical plane) passive advection test on Cartesian grid.

  19. aim.5l_Equatorial_Channel - 5-levels Intermediate Atmospheric physics, 3D Equatorial Channel configuration.

  20. aim.5l_LatLon - 5-levels Intermediate Atmospheric physics, Global configuration, on latitude longitude grid with 128x64x5 grid points ($ 2.8^\circ$ resolution).

  21. aim.5l_cs - 5-levels Intermediate Atmospheric physics, Global configuration on cube sphere grid (32x32 grid points per face, roughly $ 2.8^\circ$ ).
    Also contains an additional set-up with an ocean mixed layer and thermodynamics sea-ice (input.thSI/).

  22. bottom_ctrl_5x5 - Adjoint test using the bottom topography as the control parameter.

  23. cfc_example - Global ocean with online computation and advection of CFC11 and CFC12.

  24. cpl_aim+ocn - Coupled Ocean - Atmosphere realistic configuration on cubed-sphere cs32 horizontal grid, using Intermediate Atmospheric physics (pkg/aim_v23) thermodynamics seaice (pkg/thsice) and land packages. on cubed-sphere cs32 in a realistics configuration.

  25. cpl_atm2d+ocn - Coupled Ocean - Atmosphere realistic configuration using 2-D Atmospheric Model (pkg/atm2d).

  26. deep_anelastic - Convection simulation on a giant planet: relax both the Boussinesq approximation (anelastic) and the thin atmosphere approximation (deep atmosphere).

  27. dome - Idealized 3D test of a density-driven bottom current.

  28. exp2 - Old version of the global ocean experiment (no GM, no partial-cells).
    Also contains an additional set-up with ridid-lid (input.rigidLid/).

  29. exp4 - Flow over a Gaussian bump in open-water or channel with open boundaries.

  30. exp5 - Deep convection.

  31. fizhi-cs-32x32x40 - Global atmospheric simulation with realistic topography, 40 vertical levels, a cubed sphere grid and the full atmospheric physics package.

  32. fizhi-cs-aqualev20 - Global atmospheric simulation on an aqua planet with full atmospheric physics. Run is perpetual march with an analytical SST distribution. This is the configuration for the APE (Aqua Planet Experiment) participation experiment.

  33. fizhi-gridalt-hs - Global atmospheric simulation Held-Suarez (1994) forcing, with the physical forcing and the dynamical forcing running on different vertical grids.

  34. flt_example - Example of using float package.

  35. front_relax - Relaxation of an ocean thermal front (test for Gent/McWilliams scheme). 2D (Y-Z).
    Also contains an additional set-up with Mixed-Layer Eddy parameterization (Ferrari & McWilliams, 2007) (input.mxl/).

  36. global1x1_tot - ECCO-GODAE production configuration version 1, 2 & 3

  37. global2x2_tot - ECCO production configuration version 0

  38. global_ocean.90x40x15 Global ocean simulation at 4x4 degree resolution. Similar to tutorial_global_oce_latlon, with quasi-non-hydrostatics and non-hydrostatic metric terms.
    Also contains an adjoint set-up (code_ad/, input_ad/).

  39. global_ocean.cs32x15 - Global ocean experiment on the cubed sphere grid.
    Also contains additional set-ups:
    1. non-hydrostratic with biharmonic viscosity (input.viscA4/)
    2. using thermodynamic sea ice and bulk force (input.thsice/)
    3. using thermodynamic (pkg/thsice) dynamics (pkg/seaice) sea-ice and EXF package (input.icedyn/)

  40. global_ocean_ebm - Global ocean experiment on a lat-lon grid coupled to an atmospheric energy balance model. Similar to global_ocean.90x40x15 experiment.
    Also contains an adjoint set-up (code_ad/, input_ad/).

  41. global_with_exf - Global ocean experiment on a lat-lon grid using the exf package. Similar to global_ocean.90x40x15 experiment.

  42. hs94.128x64x5 - 3D atmosphere dynamics on lat-lon grid, using Held and Suarez '94 forcing.

  43. hs94.1x64x5 - Zonal averaged atmosphere dynamics using Held and Suarez '94 forcing.
    Also contains an adjoint set-up (code_ad/, input_ad/).

  44. hs94.cs-32x32x5 - 3D atmosphere dynamics using Held and Suarez (1994) forcing on the cubed sphere. 5 vertical levels.
    Also contains an additional set-up with Implicit Internal gravity waves treatment (input.impIGW/).

  45. ideal_2D_oce - Idealized 2D global ocean simulation on an aqua planet.

  46. internal_wave - Ocean internal wave forced by open boundary conditions.

  47. inverted_barometer - Simple test of ocean response to atmospheric pressure loading.

  48. isomip - ISOMIP like set-up including ice-shelf cavities (pkg/shelfice).
    Also contains an additional set-up with (input.htd/) but only Martin knows what "htd" stands for.

  49. lab_sea - Regional Labrador Sea simulation on a lat-lon grid using the sea ice package.
    Also contains additional set-ups:
    1. using the LSR solver (instead of EVP dynamics) (input.lsr/)
    2. using Hibler and Bryan (1987) sea-ice ocean stress (input.hb87/)
    3. using package salt_plume (input.salt_plume/)
    and also 3 adjoint set-ups (code_ad/, input_ad/, input_ad.noseaicedyn/, input_ad.noseaice/).

  50. matrix_example - Test of experimental method to accelerated convergence towards equillibrium.

  51. MLAdjust - Simple tests for different viscosity formulations.
    Also contains additional set-ups:
    1. (input.0.leith/)
    2. (input.0.leithD/)
    3. (input.0.smag/)
    4. (input.1.leith/)

  52. natl_box - Eastern subtropical North Atlantic with KPP scheme; 1 month integration

  53. natl_box_adjoint - Eastern subtropical North Atlantic with KPP scheme; adjoint set-up.

  54. offline_exf_seaice - oceanic surface forcing computed by bulk-formulae (pkg/exf) and inposed SST (offline ocean).
    Also contains additional set-ups:
    1. with sea-ice (pkg/seaice) thermodynamics (input.seaicetd/)
    2. an adjoint test (code_ad/, input_ad/).

  55. OpenAD simple Adjoint experiement (used also to test open-AD compiler)

  56. rotating_tank Rotating tank simulation in cylindrical coordinates. This experiment is described in detail in section 3.21.

  57. seaice_obcs similar to "lab_sea" (input.salt_plume/) experiment with only a fraction of the domain and open-boundary conditions derived from "lab_sea" experiment.

  58. solid-body.cs-32x32x1 Solid body rotation test for cube sphere grid.

  59. tidal_basin_2d 2-D vertical section (X-Z) with tidal forcing

  60. vermix Simple test in a small domain (3 columns) for ocean vertical mixing schemes. The standard set-up (input/) uses KPP scheme.
    Also contains additional set-ups:
    1. with Gaspar et al. (1990) (pkg/ggl90) scheme (input.ggl90/)
    2. with Mellor & Yamada (1982) level 2. (pkg/my82) scheme (input.my82/)
    3. with Paluszkiewicz & Romea (1997) (pkg/opps) scheme (input.opps/)
    4. with Pacanowski & Philander (1981) (pkg/pp81) scheme (input.pp81/)

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