[MITgcm-support] Re: non-MDSIO input files

[Baylor Fox-Kemper]

Hi Ed,
   Is this file checked into the /utils/matlab directory?  Probably  
shouid be.
   Cheers,
    -Baylor

On Aug 10, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Ed Hill wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 11:22 -0700, Dmitri Leonov wrote:
>> Hello Ed,
>>
>> Thanks for the info. I can turn on option 1 or 3. The only  
>> question is
>> how to generate the input files (using matlab or otherwise).
>> Could you point me to some examples?
>
> Hi Dmitris,
>
> Attached is a MatLAB script that can generate correctly formatted  
> files
> for the tile*.mitgrid format and the equivalent netCDF representation.
>
> The script can do more than just write files, however.  It can also
> generate an entire grid (that is, compute the 16 basic grid  
> quantities)
> from an array of 3D corner point locations.
>
>
>> For a serial 1-tile run I can modify the wrong 'grid.t001.nc' file  
>> and
>> restart the model with readgrid_mnc turned on. Will that work? How  
>> do I
>> use readgrid_mnc with multiple tiles?
>
> I don't understand the above paragraph.  What do you mean by the  
> "modify
> the wrong..." comment?  If you try to restart with different grids  
> then
> things will be wrong since the areas, lengths, etc. have all  
> changed and
> that will destroy various things such as conservation of mass, heat,
> etc.  But you can do it if the grids are the same size/shape.  And the
> solution on one grid may be a reasonable starting point on a similar
> grid.  But maybe thats not what you're trying to do?
>
> Can you provide a more concrete example of what you're trying to
> accomplish?
>
> Ed
>
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