[MITgcm-support] RE: preprocess scripts

[Ed Hill]

Hi David,

I've subscribed you to the MITgcm-support list (you need to subscribe in
order to post) and have forwarded your message (below).

In response to the preparation of input files, I think everyone tends to
develop their own scripts.  Often, bathymetry and other fields need some
"by-hand" tuning or adjustment.  Folks will use whatever language or
environment (often MatLAB) they are most comfortable in.

And all questions are welcome -- we answer as much as our time allows!

Ed

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Hello MITgcm developers,

This is a MITgcm beginner. I just got started with preparing my 
realistic bathymetry, initial temperature/salinity and wind stress 
forcing data files edible to the model. But the gendata.m scripts that
I 
found in various verification cases only deal with simple idealized 
setup. While in the online CVS code browser 
(http://mitgcm.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/preprocess/), I found quite a
few 
old (4 years) preprocess scripts which do not exist in ordinary 
checkouts. Are these scripts still supposed to do their work or already 
superceeded by something newer that I failed to find?
BTW, does the support mailing list welcome newbie questions? I recently 
subscribed it and found discussions pretty in-depth...

Thank you very much,
- David

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