Use-case demonstration of oocgcm.modelgrids

author : Julien Le Sommer
date : May 2016
purpose : This notebook is used for testing/debugging modelgrids during the development process. It will eventually become a demonstration notebook when occgcm is ready for dissemination.



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import sys
sys.path.append("/Users/lesommer/git/oocgcm/")



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#- Modules
import modelgrids as mg
import xarray as xr
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt



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%matplotlib inline



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#- Parameter
coordfile  = '/Users/lesommer/data/NATL60/NATL60-I/NATL60_coordinates_v4.nc'
maskfile = '/Users/lesommer/data/NATL60/NATL60-I/NATL60_v4.1_cdf_byte_mask.nc'
filenatl60 = '/Users/lesommer/data/NATL60/NATL60-MJM155-S/1d/2008/NATL60-MJM155_y2008m01.1d_BUOYANCYFLX.nc'

#chunks = (3454,5422)
chunks = (1727,2711)
#chunks = (500,500)
xr_chunks = {'x': chunks[-1], 'y': chunks[-2]}



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#- creating the grid object
grd = mg.nemo_2d_grid(nemo_coordinate_file=coordfile,nemo_byte_mask_file=maskfile,chunks=xr_chunks)



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#- defining a 2D xarray
sig0 = xr.open_dataset(filenatl60,chunks=xr_chunks,lock=False).variables['vosigma0'][0]



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#- compute the horizontal gradient
gx,gy = grd.horizontal_gradient(sig0)



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#- plot the horizontal gradient
plt.figure(figsize=(15,10))
gx.plot.pcolormesh(vmin=-1e-6,vmax=1e-6)



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gx.name



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