swm - Shallow water model

Shallow water equations solver with finite differences. Arakawa C-grid, Arakawa and Lamb advection scheme, Shchepetkin and O'Brian-like biharmonic diffusion operator. 4th order Runge-Kutta for time integration.

A documentation is available at http://www.github.com/milankl/swm/tree/master/docu

This model is written in python, relies on numpy, scipy and netCDF4.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

RUN

You may want to change settings in swm_param.py before you run the model. Then simply do

 python swm_run.py

Energy budget-based backscatter

An implementation of the energy budget-based backscatter as described in Kloewer et al 2018, Ocean Modelling can be found in the separate branch "backscatter".

Citation

If you use this package in your research, please cite us

Klöwer M, MF Jansen, M Claus, RJ Greatbatch and S Thomsen, 2018. Energy budget-based backscatter in a shallow water model of a double gyre basin, Ocean Modelling, 132, 10.1016/j.ocemod.2018.09.006