The current version of the QTCM provides coverage from S
to
N in latitude
and coverage over all longitudes. The grid has
dimensions
equal
to 64
33. The east/west boundaries are periodic, and the
north/south boundaries are solid walls, with sponge
layers from
S to
S,
and
N to
N.
Thus, the grid spacing is 5.625 [i.e. 360/NX] degrees
longitude and 3.75 [i.e. 120/(NY-1)] degrees latitude.
Following FORTRAN convention, the first index increments in the zonal (x)
direction with increasing longitude in the eastward direction, beginning at
0 degrees E longitude. The second index increments in the meridional (y)
direction with increasing latitude northward, beginning at S
latitude (i.e.
latitude). Thus:
grid box (1,1) is centered at E longitude,
latitude
grid box (2,1) is centered at E longitude,
latitude
grid box (2,2) is centered at E longitude,
latitude
grid box (NX,NY) is centered at E longitude,
latitude
The spatial array sizes NX and NY are set in the header file hgrid.h.
Higher resolution can be easily achieved by modifying hgrid.h and
subroutine parinit
. However, revised boundary data
sets will then need to be supplied.
Section 3.2.2 has a more complete description of the
model grid.