Matlab Tools: SeaGrid Tutorial


Kate Hedström

Arctic Region Supercomputer Center

University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA.


Charles R. Denham

U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, USA.




SeaGrid is a Matlab tool for generating curvilinear, orthogonal grids for ROMS and POM. It shares some distant ancestry with gridpak, but is interactive and bases its land mask on the coastline (usually more accurate than the bathymetry).

We will present some grid generation basics, followed by a demo of the SeaGrid package. The preparation of the coastline and bathymetry files for your region of interest will also be described. These files must be prepared before SeaGrid can be run in your domain of interest.

SeaSlice