CliMA / ClimaOcean.jl

🌎 Tools for realistic regional-to-global ocean simulations, and coupled ocean + sea-ice simulations based on Oceananigans and ClimaSeaIce. Basis for the ocean and sea-ice component of CliMA's Earth system model.
https://clima.github.io/ClimaOceanDocumentation/dev/
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Is it necessary to use such a fine grid for the surface flux example? #166

Open glwagner opened 1 month ago

glwagner commented 1 month ago

It makes the example pretty expensive and hard to play around with. Right now the grid is the ECCO2 grid which is 1440 x 720

https://github.com/CliMA/ClimaOcean.jl/blob/dd9148a8f702699ddf2947d3a1a094adddbd9bb1/examples/generate_surface_fluxes.jl#L26-L28

Also for surface fluxes there is no need to have 50 z-levels, right? Why don't we just use a single z-level? I feel like a 2 degree grid would be better. It's funny that the example claims that the "ECCO2 grid is a good starting point" -- why?