SPINS Development Plans

Things to add

1. Diagnostics
   • Richardson number
   • APE
   • Q and R
   • Mixing and Stirring
   • Energy flux through a plane
   • Area/Volume of a region meeting a specified criterion
2. Chains and planes
3. Verbosity flag for outputs
4. Verbosity flag for debugging
5. Increase/Decrease resolution by padding the spectra with zeros

Things to improve

1. DOCUMENTATION
2. I/O in NETCDF
3. Upper boundary condition (not clustering grid points at top)
4. Filter parameters and understanding
5. Change stderr to stdout for some code outputs
6. Mapped grids still use an inverted vertical grid

Issues

1. Scaling in mapped cases
2. Update software packages