Shallow water equations solver with finite differences. Arakawa C-grid, Arakawa and Lamb advection scheme, Shchepetkin and O'Brian-like biharmonic diffusion operator. 4th order Runge-Kutta for time integration.

A documentation is available at http://www.github.com/milankl/swm/tree/master/docu

This model is written in python, relies on numpy, scipy and netCDF4.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

You may want to change settings in swm_param.py before you run the model. Then simply do

 python swm_run.py

An implementation of the energy budget-based backscatter as described in Kloewer et al 2018, Ocean Modelling can be found in the separate branch "backscatter".

Copyright (C) 2018, Milan Kloewer ([email protected], milank.de)

If you use this package in your research, please cite us

Klöwer M, MF Jansen, M Claus, RJ Greatbatch and S Thomsen, 2018. Energy budget-based backscatter in a shallow water model of a double gyre basin, Ocean Modelling, 132, 10.1016/j.ocemod.2018.09.006