3.11 Global Ocean Simulation at Resolution

This example experiment demonstrates using the MITgcm to simulate the planetary ocean circulation. The simulation is configured with realistic geography and bathymetry on a spherical polar grid. The files for this experiment are in the verification directory under tutorial_global_oce_latlon. Twenty levels are used in the vertical, ranging in thickness from at the surface to at depth, giving a maximum model depth of . At this resolution, the configuration can be integrated forward for thousands of years on a single processor desktop computer.

• 3.11.1 Overview
• 3.11.2 Discrete Numerical Configuration
  • 3.11.2.1 Numerical Stability Criteria
  
  
• 3.11.3 Experiment Configuration
  • 3.11.3.1 Driving Datasets
  • 3.11.3.2 File input/data
  • 3.11.3.3 File input/data.pkg
  • 3.11.3.4 File input/eedata
  • 3.11.3.5 File input/windx.sin_y
  • 3.11.3.6 File input/topog.box
  • 3.11.3.7 File code/SIZE.h
  • 3.11.3.8 File code/CPP_OPTIONS.h
  • 3.11.3.9 File code/CPP_EEOPTIONS.h
  • 3.11.3.10 Other Files

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