[MITgcm-support] Surface Deep Convection Tutorial

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Hi Ashley,

On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:43:14PM -0500, Ashley Stroman wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Well I suppose to be more specific my question is where is the number 1000 from?

line 57: var=2*pi*[0:1000]/1000; xl=Rc*cos(var); yl=Rc*sin(var);
line 66: 66 L=line(xl,yl);

> > As you can see from gendata.m, line 57, this is used to 
> > calculate xl,yl so that we can draw a circle (line 66) to indicate
> > where the cooling disk is.

I personally like how the circle shows up on the plot when I use 1000.
And again, this is just to make the plot and has no effect on 
the binary input file "Qnet_p32.bin" that gendata.m produces.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel

> 
> -Ashley
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Dec 6, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Jean-Michel Campin <jmc at ocean.mit.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Ashley,
> > 
> > There was a problem in the axis of the plot (imagesc)
> > that, I think, I've just fixed.
> > Note that this does not affect the binary input file
> > "Qnet_p32.bin" that gendata.m produces.
> > 
> > If you could try with the recent update.
> > 
> > And regarding this:
> >> 2.) In the script, what is var calculating, and what what does the [1:1000) and /1000 come from?
> > As you can see from gendata.m, line 57, this is used to 
> > calculate xl,yl so that we can draw a circle (line 66) to indicate
> > where the cooling disk is.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Jean-Michel
> > 
> >> On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:22:09PM +0000, Stroman, Ashley wrote:
> >> Hello.
> >> 
> >> I am trying to run the gendata script within the surface deep convection tutorial and I have two questions.
> >> 
> >> 1.) When I run the script in Matlab, I get an error output that says
> >> 
> >> BLAS loading error:
> >> mkl.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate
> >> memory
> >> 
> >> Error in gendata (line 41)
> >> xc=x'*ones(1,ny); yc=ones(nx,1)*y;
> >> 
> >> Is there a way to rewrite this part of the code so it won’t crash on me?
> >> 
> >> 2.) In the script, what is var calculating, and what what does the [1:1000) and /1000 come from?
> >> 
> >> Thanks.
> >> 
> >> Best,
> >> Ashley Stroman
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