seagrid output netcdf file

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loric
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seagrid output netcdf file

#1 Unread post by loric »

Hi,

Just a quick question. I've been able to run seagrid with some success for my own application. I've let seagrid compute the landmask and bathymetry, and then saved it with all this information. I then ran seagrid2roms to convert into a netcdf file. Does this mean that I just need this one file to specify my grid, landmask, and bathymetry? No need for separate landmask and bathy files?

crode1968
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#2 Unread post by crode1968 »

This is correct. The via seagrid2roms converted file should contain all necessary fields. You might check the content visually with ncview (http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~pierce/ncview_home_page.html) a simple netCDF viewer, which I use also to inspect model output. But please keep in mind, it is only a viewer.

If I want to change or check my landmask, I use editmask of the ROMS Matlab toolbox (sub directory rmask). You can easily change whole groups of boxes without clicking on each single grid point, which is very convenient.

loric
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#3 Unread post by loric »

Thanks for the reply and the helpful hints. I'm trying out both of your suggestions. For ncview, I'm using Ubuntu, so there are some issues with the X11 libraries. But the website you gave has hints for this.

As for editmask, here's where I'm getting a bit confused. And searching for it has led to the discovery of the several "flavors" of ROMS in use. I would like to use the Rutgers version, but an internet search for ROMS toolbox leads me to the AGRIF version. Is there a specific ROMS matlab toolbox, and hence editmask, for the Rutgers version?

crode1968
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#4 Unread post by crode1968 »

Matlab Toolboxes for ROMS are also available from the following sites

a) ROMS web site (Software / Processing Packages / matlab.tar.gz ), http://www.myroms.org/index.php?page=Processing (Enter the matlab directory)
b) E. Di Lorenzo web site: http://www.ocean3d.org/RNT/

I personally use the collection of toolboxes from the first address, which works fine with Roms-3.0. Do not forget to adjust in startup.m the line my_root='/home/arango/ocean';.

loric
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#5 Unread post by loric »

Thanks very much for the links, and for your help on this subjetc. I'll be trying out the tools and hope to learn how to use them well.

Loric

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