dam_break¶
The ocean/dam_break
test group reproducs the dam break test case
from Warner et al. (2013).
The domain is a rectangular box divided into a dammed region with sea surface height of 0.6 m and a floodplain region with sea surface height equal to the minimum layer thickness. By default, there are 3 vertical layers. Horizontal resolutions of 40 cm and 120 cm are available.
The test group includes 1 test case. The test case has 3 steps. The
initial_state
defines the mesh and initial conditions for the model. The
forward
step runs MPAS-Ocean in forward mode and allows water from the
dammed region to flow into the floodplain region. The viz
step performs
visualization of the time evolution of SSH at a series of sites. These plots
are used to compare the MPAS-Ocean output with experimental data and the
solution from the ROMS model.

config options¶
The config options for this test case are:
# Options related to the vertical grid
[vertical_grid]
# Number of vertical levels # redundant with config_dam_break_vert_levels
vert_levels = 3
default¶
ocean/dam_break/40cm/default
is the default version of the dam break
test case for validation of sea surface height through visual inspection
against experimental data and ROMS solutions.