15.1. Basin#
This is a rectangular, flat-bottomed basin with double-gyre wind forcing. It produces a western boundary current flowing into a central Gulf Stream which goes unstable and generates eddies if resolution is increased.
# define BASIN
CPP options:
# undef OPENMP
# undef MPI
# define UV_ADV
# define UV_COR
# define UV_VIS2
# define SOLVE3D
# define TS_DIF2
# define BODYFORCE
# define ANA_GRID
# define ANA_INITIAL
# define ANA_SMFLUX
# define ANA_STFLUX
# define ANA_BTFLUX
# define NO_FRCFILE
Settings :
Results :

BASIN results : density (up) and sea surface elevation (down)#