How to configure a customised experiment

This is a basic guidance 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. Find more information about the namelist here.

  3. Modify and adapt the files under /projects/mymodel, which are setup_grid.F90, read_field.F90, and kill_zones.F90. Find more information about the subroutines setup_grid.F90 and read_field.F90 here.

  4. Adapt the Makefile.prj to adjust the compiling flags. The list of possible flags can be found here.

  5. Adapt the Makefile in the main directory and set PROJECT = mymodel and CASE = mymodel.

For more detailed examples refer to TRACMASS Tutorials