OBCS tutorial

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Tutorial 3

Introduction

The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce you to the OBCS (Open Boundaries) and PTRACERS (Passive Tracers) modules. It assumes that you're comfortable building and running the model, and using your chosen method of data visualization (gcmpy, ParaView, VisIt, etc.) It's recommended to run the other two tutorials first.

Case 1: Warm inflow

This tutorial uses a very simple setup, with an inflow in the north boundary and an outflow in the east boundary. The lake floor is sloped downwards in the direction of the outflow. Initial temperature is stratified between 10 and 20