MITgcm Tutorials

We have several tutorials for running the MITgcm.

This page needs to be updated to describe the current tutorials. The three shown here are obsolete.

• Tutorial 1: Gravity wave. This is a good first introduction to MITgcm, and has some good points about troubleshooting the model.
• Tutorial 2: External forcing and ice. This tutorial will introduce you to controlling ice and external forcing. It is a good starting point for running your own MITgcm cases with ice.
• Tutorial 3: Open boundaries and other packages. This tutorial shows you how to use OBCS, pTracers, and shows the process of setting up a package from scratch.

For all tutorials it is assumed that you have followed the instructions to Setup the MITgcm.

Getting the code

The tutorials can be cloned with the command:

git clone gitlab@git.uwaterloo.ca:AppliedMath_fluids/MITgcm_Tutorials.git 

It's easiest if you clone this into the MITgcm directory tree so that model will be able to find its source files when you compile it.