[MITgcm-support] 2. Re: Re : SPgrid

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

Rima,

> is there verification or tutorial examples in MITgcm use curvilinear grid??
> 
> is there a file show curvilinear grid format (delX, delY, lat, lon, depth,
> etc that related to curvilinear grid) in MITgcm??

All the cube-sphere verification experiments, for example, global_ocean.cs32x15, 
use curvilinear grid.  An alternative way to read-in grid files, i.e., in 
separate files for each field as opposed to the "tile*" input files, is to use 
"OLD_GRID_IO".  There is an example of this here:
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/arctic/README_arctic2.txt
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/arctic/code2/
http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/arctic/code2/

Dimitris