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Revision as of 19:22, 11 April 2008
 This WikiROMS article is currently under HEAVY construction. This message will be erased when active construction is finished (in 1 or 2 days).April 11, 2008 |
This tutorial will go over some of the basic steps to set up a ROMS realistic application (yet, this is a very simple one). This tutorial is also a demonstration of how to use EASYGRID, a "quick-and-dirty" matlab script to make ROMS grids and initialization files.
PREREQUISITES: This tutorial assumes that you have downloaded ROMS, installed it in your computer (or cluster), and test it by compiling and running one of the included test cases.
Geographical Setting: This application is for Ship Harbour, an estuarine fjord in Nova Scotia, Canada. Click here to see the location in Google. Tides are semidiurnal and tidal range is 1.4 m on average and 2 m on spring tides. For now I will only include tidal forcing, however, there is a river at the uppermost end of the estuary, which discharges freshwater at an annual average rate of 18 m3 s-1. I plan to write another tutorial on how to add a river, but for now is only tides.
Ship Harbour has a shallow sill of approximately 7 m depth. Average depth of the inner basin is 15 m with a maximum of 25 m.
Conditioning Matlab
Matlab is a powerful software that is commonly used to create ROMS inputs and to visualize and analyze ROMS output. However, out-of-the-box Matlab doesn't come with the capabilities to read/write ROMS NetCDF files. For that you need to download and install MEXNC, SNCTOOLS and the ROMS Matlab toolkit.
MEXNC, SNCTOOLS and ROMS Matlab-toolkit
CLICK HERE for a tutorial with step-by-step download/installation instructions.
Scilab and Octave are free Matlab-like software. For the MEXNC-equivalent for Scilab, Click here
Grid Generation
The first step to set up a realistic application is to set up a realistic grid. There are several software packages to generate ROMS grids. Here I will use EASYGRID.
Download EASYGRID
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Get bathymetry and coastline
Initialization
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Tidal Forcing
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