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 :

../_images/test_cases_basin.png — BASIN results : density (up) and sea surface elevation (down)#