[MITgcm-support] SPgrid

[Pat Gallacher]

Hi Ed,

Improved documentation for SPgrid and more examples would be  
extremely useful.

Pat
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Patrick C. Gallacher, PhD
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Nonhydrostatic Ocean Modeling
Naval Research Laboratory
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On Jul 25, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Ed Hill wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Riema Rachmayani wrote:
>>
>> did you create your curvilinear models utilize SPgrid in MITgcm under
>> Fedora Core Linux (version 4 or 5) just like in MITgcm manual
>> (chapter 7.5 Grid Generation)??
>>
>> any other method to create curvilinear in MITgcm??
>
>
> Hi Riema,
>
> The SPgrid code is separate from MITgcm but was written expressly to
> create grids for MITgcm.  There are other tools that you can use to
> create logically rectangular curvilinear orthogonal grids.  The only
> ones that I know about that work with MITgcm are:
>
>  + lat-long grids are easy to generate, are logically rectangular
>    and curvilinear orthogonal and they can be arbitrarily rotated
>  + some folks have programs that use the method of Rancic &
>    Purser to generate cube-sphere grids.
>
> And there may be other programs out there -- perhaps someone else can
> make suggestions?
>
>
> You can get SPgrid from the MITgcm CVS repository at:
>
>   http://mitgcm.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/development/edhill/spgrid/
>
> To build and run SPgrid you need the following installed:
>
>   + a C++ compiler such as g++ v4.x
>   + Boost : C++ library available at:
>       http://boost.org/
>   + Wild Magic v3 : a C++ library available at:
>       http://geometrictools.com/
>   + MatLAB  (a run-time dependency)
>
>
> On a recent Fedora system, you can get Boost with (as root):
>
>   yum install boost-devel boost-doc boost
>
> you can get Wild Magic v3 RPMs at:
>
>   http://mitgcm.org/eh3/fedora_misc/
>
> or you can build it from source and install it yourself.  And you'll
> have to either buy MatLAB or try to use Octave as a substitute for
> some of the run-time processing.
>
> I am extremely busy right now but I will have some vacation time in a
> few weeks and, during that time, I'll be happy to do one or more of  
> the
> following:
>
>  + write some better SPgrid docs and provide more examples
>  + upgrade SPgrid so that it uses the latest Wild Magic v4
>  + meet with folks and answer questions--if its in the Boston area
>
> All of the examples shown in the paper (and, in fact, everything I've
> done with SPgrid) is available as sets of programs and scripts within
> the CVS repository.
>
> Ed
>
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