<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear MITgcm-ers,<br class=""><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have another question regarding the setup of high-resolution <b class="">regional simulations</b> in marginal seas of the Mediterranean.</div><div class="">We would like to impose <b class="">tidal forcing</b> at the <b class="">boundary</b>: our domains are about 4° × 4° wide, so I don't think we need also tidal potential (but, of course, I would be happy to know your opinion about this!).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We noticed that some updates have been made recently to the code (<a href="https://github.com/MITgcm/MITgcm/tree/master/pkg/obcs" class="">https://github.com/MITgcm/MITgcm/tree/master/pkg/obcs</a>, issue <a href="https://github.com/MITgcm/MITgcm/issues/617" class=""><b class="">#617</b></a> and PR <a href="https://github.com/MITgcm/MITgcm/pull/752" class=""><b class="">#752</b></a>).</div><div class="">We used to create the "old version" files (OBSamFile, OBSphFile, etc...) customizing the Matlab <a href="http://wwwcvs.mitgcm.org/viewvc/MITgcm/MITgcm_contrib/tides/" class=""><b class="">tides</b></a> tool created by Xiaochun Wang and found in <a href="http://wwwcvs.mitgcm.org/viewvc/MITgcm/MITgcm_contrib/" class=""><b class="">MITgcm_contrib</b></a>, which uses the Tidal Model Driver (<b class="">TMD</b>) toolbox.</div><div class="">Now we would like to switch to Python (and, indeed, <a href="https://github.com/pyTMD/pyTMD" class=""><b class="">pyTMD</b></a> is available), but there are no "interface" scripts with MITgcm. Compared to the Matlab version of TMD, pyTMD has some differences and we were wondering if there were tools to produce the "new version" OB files for MITgcm (OBS_vTidamFile, OBS_vTidphFile, etc...). Otherwise, we will translate the Matlab tools in Python, as originally planned...</div><div class="">I also have not found much more info about these topics in the documentation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another question... is someone aware of <b class="">high resolution tidal datasets</b> (atlas) that include the Mediterranean area? I found mostly global or polar models (e.g., <a href="https://g.hyyb.org/archive/Tide/TPXO/TPXO_WEB/ptm_index_files/polar_tide_models.html" class="">https://g.hyyb.org/archive/Tide/TPXO/TPXO_WEB/ptm_index_files/polar_tide_models.html</a>). Several years ago, I found an interesting dataset at this link (<a href="http://volkov.oce.orst.edu/tides/med.html" class="">http://volkov.oce.orst.edu/tides/med.html</a>), but it does not seem available any more...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stefano and Andrea</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--<br class="">Stefano Querin, PhD<br class="">Sezione di Oceanografia<br class="">Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS<br class="">via Beirut n. 2<br class="">34151 Trieste - Italia<br class="">Tel. +39 040 2140623<br class="">Skype: stefano_querin<br class=""><a href="http://www.ogs.it" class="">www.ogs.it</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>