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Boundary Condition Files

 

These files need to be in the directory whose path and name are given by the execution shell script variable bnddir in order for the model to work. In this release, this directory is bnddata.

All files are ASCII formatted vertical lists arranged using standard FORTRAN looping conventions for an array, which first increments the first index, then the second index, and so on. Thus, each line the boundary condition file corresponds to the value of the variable in a spatial domain grid box in the following way:

line 1 corresponds to grid (1,1)
line 2 corresponds to grid (2,1)
line NX corresponds to grid (NX,1)
line NX+1 corresponds to grid (1,2)

The following datasets are included in the boundary condition directory:

SST01
Same as 00000115.sst in SST_Reynolds; for model initialization.
SST_Reynolds
Directory containing Reynolds [20] blended SST. See section 2.4.1 for more information.
STYPE
Surface type; ocean=0, forest=1, grass=2, desert=3
TOP
Unsmoothed relative topography; height/10km (currently the same as the file TOP.nosmooth).

There are other files described the the README file in this directory that are not used in this version of the QTCM. They are provided just in case any potential user might find them of interest.



Johnny Wei-Bing Lin
Mon Jun 30 12:27:46 PDT 1997