This module handles all tasks related to the definition of the
computational domain - except reading in variables from file.
The required information depends on the
and also on the
complexity of the model simulation to be done.
The mandatory varible
read from the file containing
the bathymetry and coordinate information (presently only NetCDF
is supported) is guiding subsequent tasks.
can take
the following values:
1: | equi-distant plane grid - |
2: | equi-distant spherical grid - |
3: | curvilinear grid in the plane - |
For all values of
the bathymetry given on the T-points
(see the GETM manual for definition) must be given.
Based on the value of
the following additional variables
are required:
1: | proper monotone coordinate informtion in the xy-plane
with equidistant spacing. The name of the coordinate
variables are |
2: | proper monotone coordinate informtion on the sphere
with equidistant spacing in longitude and latitude. The
names of the coordinate variables are |
3: | position in the plane of the grid-vertices. These are
called X-points in GETM. The names of these two variables
are |
In addition to the above required grid information the following information is necessary for specific model configurations:
A: | If |
B: | The longitude, latitude positions of the T-points are required when using forcing from a NWP-model. |
In addition to the information above a few files are optionally read
in
. Information about open boundaries, modifications
to the bathymetry and the calculation masks are are done via simple
ASCII files.