[MITgcm-support] arbitrary tiles in cube-sphere grid

[Martin Losch]

Hi Yuan,

again, I am not sure about this at all, but I alway thought that with the cubed-sphere topology, you need to have all tiles in the i-direction, so neither nPy nor nSy can be larger than 1. 
It's interesting that your rhs-plot seems to work, but not the lhs (I would have guessed that both do not work because nSy=2). Let's wait for the specialists to explain this.

Martin

On Mar 24, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Yuan Lian wrote:

> Hi Martin,
> 
> Thanks! This is interesting. I never thought this would work when there are several subtiles in "y" direction. 
> 
> I just tried your configuration but it didn't make apparent difference. I attached a figure that compares the two setups side-by-side. The vertical velocity is shown for 1000 time steps. They "patchy" values are visible in the left panel but vanish in the right panel. The overall values look different too. The configuration in the left panel will get worse when I run the simulation longer.
> 
> In the left panel, I used  
> PARAMETER (
> &           sNx =   8,
> &           sNy =   4,
> &           OLx =   4,
> &           OLy =   4,
> &           nSx =   2,
> &           nSy =   2,
> &           nPx =  12,
> &           nPy =   1,
> &           Nx  = sNx*nSx*nPx,
> &           Ny  = sNy*nSy*nPy,
> &           Nr  =  56)
> 
> 
> In the right panel, I used
> 
> PARAMETER (
> &           sNx =   8,
> &           sNy =   8,
> &           OLx =   4,
> &           OLy =   4,
> &           nSx =   1,
> &           nSy =   2,
> &           nPx =  12,
> &           nPy =   1,
> &           Nx  = sNx*nSx*nPx,
> &           Ny  = sNy*nSy*nPy,
> &           Nr  =  56)
> 
> 
> Any thoughts on these? Thanks!
> 
> Best regards,
> Yuan
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/24/12 12:31 AM, Martin Losch wrote:
>> Hi Yuan,
>> 
>> I may be wrong about this, but I think that with the cube-sphere grid you need to put all tiles "in a row", so instead of nPx=12, nPy=4, you need to have nPx=48, nPy=1
>> 
>> I don't know anything about the Shapiro filter.
>> 
>> Martin
>> 
>> On Mar 24, 2012, at 6:54 AM, Yuan Lian wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I have a question about setting arbitrary tiles in cube-sphere grid. I don't have any problems using the regular six-tile configuration. However, there are "patchy" values (more obvious in vertical or meridional velocity) near the corners of subtiles if I use the following SIZE.h
>>> 
>>>      PARAMETER (
>>> &           sNx =   8,
>>> &           sNy =   4,
>>> &           OLx =   4,
>>> &           OLy =   4,
>>> &           nSx =   1,
>>> &           nSy =   1,
>>> &           nPx =  12,
>>> &           nPy =   4,
>>> &           Nx  = sNx*nSx*nPx,
>>> &           Ny  = sNy*nSy*nPy,
>>> &           Nr  =  56)
>>> 
>>> It appears that either EXCH2 routine or Shapiro filter does not work properly in this case.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone also notice the problem?
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Yuan
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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