Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Simple ROMS case

Below are two movies I made of a seminar on how to create a simple case in ROMS. The case is of a sequentially upwelling/downwelling wind on a shelf. There were some compiler issues, that are not included, so the movie is in two parts (the second part is after the issue got fixed). For the record, it was TS_MPDATA that caused the failure on my laptop (a segfault, then a bus error -- not so good). Using more conventional tracer advection options (Akima 4th order and splines) works great. Here are the links:

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

ROMS grid class in Python

I have just finished a beta version of a grid class for ROMS (or other curvilinear C-grids). I have not cut out a release from the svn yet, as I am waiting for comments from others. However, you can see the source code here. You can get the entire toolset from svn with:

svn co http://pong.tamu.edu/svn/python/trunk/ rdh_python


I have also posted an introductory tutorial here. Other tutorials (and a fancier page) will be posted to

http://pong.tamu.edu/~rob/python/tutorials/