How to configure a customised experiment

This is a basic guide on how to implement a new setup from a GCM with a grid that does not exist in the present TRACMASS projects list. This requires good knowledge in the numerical discretisation of your GCM and of Fortran programming.

  1. Make a new «project» which we call “mymodel” here.

    Copy the directory from an existing project that has a similar grid (A,B or C-grid) or has a similar format (netcdf, grib, etc.). So that:

     cd projects
 cp -r NEMO mymodel

    or:

     cp -r AVISO mymodel

    or:

     cp -r IFS mymodel

  2. Rename the namelist file to namelist_mymodel.in or namelist_mycase.in if you are using a case within the project. Remember, the name of the namelist has to match with the case name that is set in the Makefile.prj, located in the TRACMASS' root directory. Find more information about the namelist, its components and how to set it up here.

  3. Modify and adapt the files under /projects/mymodel, which are setup_grid.F90, read_field.F90, kill_zones.F90 and Makefile. You can find more information about these files here here.

For more detailed examples refer to TRACMASS Tutorials