ntu-as-cooklab/sailing

Sailing simulation based on CFSR data

Sailing

This is a sailing simulation based on CFSR wind and ocean current data. The goal is to simulate the sailing route of a sailing ship during different seasons based on a simple model, which may be helpful for studies on human migration across the ocean.

• NOAA CFS
• GRIB Parameter Database

Prerequisites

• libcurl
• ecCodes
• libwebsockets (v4.3)
• netcdf
• libcbor
• nlohmann-json (v3.6.1)
• GCC >= 8
• CMake
• nodejs
• npm

Instructions

Install prerequisites (on Ubuntu):

$ make deps

To build & install,

$ make install

Download data:

$ make DATA_DIR=/data2 nc

To run,

$ sudo bin/sailing

Project directory structure

• src: Source files for main application
• www: Source files for browser frontend