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Document the meaning and units of measurement of all the parameters. #58

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axch opened this issue Mar 12, 2017 · 2 comments
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Document the meaning and units of measurement of all the parameters. #58

axch opened this issue Mar 12, 2017 · 2 comments

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axch commented Mar 12, 2017

For now, expanding the comments in the top-level parameters.in file is an adequate place to capture this knowledge. I believe Fortran namelist input permits interspersing line comments with the entries of the namelist, and may even permit comments at the end of a line, like

 &NUMERICS
 au = 200.,  ! viscosity, in Pa * s
 ah = 0.0,   ! thickness diffusivity, in m^2/s
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@axch axch added the usability label Mar 14, 2017
@axch axch modified the milestone: Draft the MIM paper for Geoscientific Modeling Mar 14, 2017
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This was closed by #135, which added a new config file to the base directory of the repo that included comments describing each of the parameters, and displayed this file in the documentation.

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axch commented May 9, 2017

Just a couple little nits from looking that file over:

  • What are the units in which the Coriolis parameter is given?
  • Can you give the bit meanings for the wetmask (1 for water and 0 for land?)

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