SPINS Development Plans

Things to add

1. Diagnostics
   • Richardson number
   • Q and R
   • Mixing and Stirring
   • Energy flux through a plane
   • Area/Volume of a region meeting a specified criterion
   • output diagnostics at optional time-steps (to be step in spins.conf)
2. Chains and planes
3. Verbosity flag for outputs
4. Verbosity flag for debugging
5. Increase/Decrease resolution by padding the spectra with zeros
6. Make clean will clean all subdirectories in cases folder

Things to improve

1. DOCUMENTATION
   • add a list of papers that have used SPINS
2. I/O in NETCDF
3. Upper boundary condition (not clustering grid points at top)
4. Filter parameters and understanding
5. random number generator uses the processor rank as a seed, maybe use time and rank?
6. derivative.cpp use spins.deriv.conf (set in Options.cpp, but overwrite in case file)?

Issues

1. Scaling in mapped cases
2. Update software packages