Taicom Circulation model User's guide and manual

Guide for the DieCAST Ocean Model

Yu-Heng Tseng and David E. Dietrich
Copyright © Draft date September 12, 2007

• Contents
• Introduction
• Links and examples of results from real DieCAST application
  • DieCAST relevant websites and useful links
  • Southwest Pacific Ocean model: resolution
  • North Atlantic Ocean: resolution(Dietrich et al., 2004b)
  • Adriatic Sea: resolution(Cushman-Roisin et al., 2007)
  • Gulf of Mexico: and resolution(Dietrich, 1997)
  • Monterey Bay regional circulation: resolution(Tseng et al., 2005)
  
  
• Governing equations and numerical descriptions
  • Basic DieCAST ocean model description
    • Continuum equations
    • The DieCAST computational grid
    • Leapfrog time stepping
    • DieCAST open boundary treatment
  • Basic program sequence
  • Model features
  • Advanced features
    • Free surface
    • Nesting and grid coupling
    • Non-hydrostatic
    • Data assimilation
  
  
• Getting started
  • Preprocess and data input
  • Graphics output
  
  
• Tutorials
  • Obtain the code
  • Numerical simulation of island wakes
    • Description
    • Running the code
    • Viewing the results
      • Using the existing plotting program and gv
      • Using MATLAB commercial software
  • Three dimensional density current over a continetal slope
    • Description
    • Running the code
    • Viewing the results
  
  
• DieCAST model: directory structure, input data (preprocessor), output data, plotting and basic parameters
  • The model preprocessor
    • PREP/DATA/metgen.f
    • PREP/DATA/inmets.f
    • PREP/DATA/indata.f
    • PREP/prep.f
  • The model postprocessor
  • The model program
  
  
• Incompressibility
• Fourth-order accurate interpolation from nearby control volume averages to a cell face
• Vertical mixing scheme: Pacanowski & Philander (1981)
• DieCAST model programs and subroutines
  • Listings of the DieCAST model and its preprocessor and postprocessor codes
    • PREP/prep.f
    • THE MODEL
  
  
• ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF VARIABLES AND THEIR MEANINGS
• Bibliography
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