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3.21.1 Overview

This example configuration demonstrates using the MITgcm to simulate a laboratory demonstration using a differentially heated rotating annulus of water. The simulation is configured for a laboratory scale on a $ 3^{\circ}\times1\mathrm{cm}$ cyclindrical grid with twenty-nine vertical levels of 0.5cm each. This is a typical laboratory setup for illustration principles of GFD, as well as for a laboratory data assimilation project. The files for this experiment can be found in the verification directory under rotating_tank.

example illustration from GFD lab here



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