drying_slope

The drying_slope test group (compass.ocean.tests.drying_slope.DryingSlope) implements variants of the drying slope test case. Here, we describe the shared framework for this test group and the 1 test case.

framework

The shared config options for the drying_slope test group are described in drying_slope in the User’s Guide.

Additionally, the test group has shared namelist.init and namelist.forward files with a few common namelist options related to run duration, bottom drag, and tidal forcing options, as well as shared streams.init and streams.forward files that defines mesh, input, restart, forcing and output streams.

Namelist options specific to resolutions and vertical coordinates are given in namelist.${RES}.* and namelist.${COORD}* files.

initial_state

The class compass.ocean.tests.drying_slope.initial_state.InitialState defines a step for setting up the initial state for each test case.

First, a mesh appropriate for the resolution is generated using mpas_tools.planar_hex.make_planar_hex_mesh(). Then, the mesh is culled to remove periodicity in the y direction. MPAS-Ocean is then run in init mode. If the vertical coordinate is sigma, the vertical grid configured accordingly during init mode. During this init mode run, ssh is initialized using the tidal forcing config options, and temperature and salinity are set to constant values by default. (Namelist options may be modified to produce a plug of different temperature values from the background, but this is not employed in this test case.)

forward

The class compass.ocean.tests.drying_slope.forward.Forward defines a step for running MPAS-Ocean from the initial condition produced in the initial_state step. If damping_coeff is provided as an argument to the constructor, the associate namelist option (config_Rayleigh_damping_coeff) will be given this value. MPAS-Ocean is run in run().

viz

The class compass.ocean.tests.drying_slope.viz.Viz defines a visualization step which serves the purpose of validation. This validation is tailored for the default config options and the two Rayleigh damping coefficients set by the default sigma-coordinate test case, 0.0025 and 0.01. One plot verifies that the time evolution of the ssh forcing at the boundary matches the analytical solution intended to drive the test case. Another plot compares the time evolution of the ssh profile across the channel between the analytical solution, MPAS-Ocean and ROMS. Similar plots are used to create a movie showing the solution from MPAS-Ocean at more fine-grained time intervals.

default

The compass.ocean.tests.drying_slope.default.Default test performs two 12-hour runs on 4 cores. It doesn’t contain any Validation. This class accepts resolution and coordinate type coord_type as arguments. Both sigma and single_layer coordinate types are supported. For sigma coordinates, this case is hard-coded to run two cases at different values of config_Rayleigh_damping_coeff, 0.0025 and 0.01, for which there is comparison data. The single_layer case runs at one value of the explicit bottom drag coefficient.