Downloading CROCO
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To perform a regional simulation using CROCO, the modeler needs:

* the CROCO source code
* the CROCO_TOOLS or CROCO_PYTOOLS scripts, which are tools for pre- and 
  post-processing using Matlab and/or Python
* Datasets to create the input files: 
    * grid
    * surface atmospheric forcing
    * oceanic boundaries and initialization

Source code
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CROCO, CROCO_TOOLS and CROCO_PYTOOLS stable releases are available in the 
Download section:  https://www.croco-ocean.org/download/

They are available as tarball or can be checked-out using git. 
Follow instructions in the **Download stable release** section.

External datasets
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Some external datasets are needed by CROCO_TOOLS. Some of them, like bathymetry, tide atlas,  
atmospheric, oceanic and biogeochemical climatological datasets are directly available in 
the **Datasets** section as tarball archives.

**CROCO_TOOLS** and **CROCO_PYTOOLS** also provide pre-processing scripts for 
the download and create interannual forcings as: 

* CFSR, ERA-interim, ERA5 ... for atmospheric forcing 
* SODA and MERCATOR for the oceanic boundaries and initialization
* GLOFAS for the rivers