[MITgcm-support] stretched grid

[Alistair Adcroft]

It's fully implemented but you need to hack the grid initialization to not
use cube specific stuff...  i.e. 10 minutes work.

A.
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Does that mean that, 
yes it's possible, but strictly,
it's not fully implemented?
-p.

Quoting Alistair Adcroft <adcroft at MIT.EDU>:

> Yes it is quite possible. The only thing the model does wrong is that
> it assumes we're on a cube grid when reading the curvilinear grid data 
> - I have fixed this in my own version but need to check/rectify it 
> with the latest cube stuff.
> 
> The grid generation needs to give point-to-point distances and surface
> areas for the four grids of model variables (T,U,V,Zeta) as defined in 
> GRID.h .
> 
> A.
> --
> Dr Alistair Adcroft            http://www.mit.edu/~adcroft
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> [mailto:mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Patrick 
> Heimbach
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 6:52 PM
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> Subject: [MITgcm-support] stretched grid
> 
> 
> Hi Alistair,
> 
> is it possible to run the model on a stretched
> orthogonal grid?
> 
> I reckon, it should be (fairly easy) as long as it
> is orthogonal, right?
> All that needs to be done should be to generate
> correct face cells that are then read by the model.
> Is there any documentation of what input the model needs
> (and which secret flags need to be set)?
> 
> Thanks
> -Patrick
> 
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