Metos3D

Welcome

Metos3D is a collection of simulation software, models and data intended to be used for simulation and optimization of marine ecosystem models. Metos3D is organized in separate git repositories. The current versions are:

metos3d		main script, should be run as a shell command
simpack		main software, transport driver
model		marine biogeochemical/ecosystem models
data		geometry data, forcing data, transport matrices

Installation

To install the toolkit, just paste the following line into your terminal: (python and curl required):

python -c "$(curl -fsSL https://github.com/metos3d/metos3d/raw/master/install.py)"

You will be able to choose a directory where the code will be installed in.

Documentation

The main scientific document can be found at:

http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/9/3729/2016/

A technical report explaining the matrix command can be found at:

http://www.uni-kiel.de/journals/receive/jportal_jparticle_00000291

Additionally, each repository consists of a documentation folder named doc. Quick access:

PETSc

Metos3D needs the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc) to run.

Notes

Important changes that has been accomplished lately:

– Diagnostic versions of the N, N-DOP, ..., NPZD-DOP models have been added.
– The BGC API includes now diagnostic variables. See: metos3d-model.pdf
– The matrix command has been added.
– Metos3D works with PETSc 3.7 now.

Authors and Contributors

The software was written by Jaroslaw Piwonski at Kiel University, Dep. of Computer Science. It uses data that were aggregated form original data provided by Samar Khatiwala .

The homepage concept is copied from GitHub Pages and the homebrew project.

Support or Contact

Have trouble installing Metos3D? Contact Thomas Slawig.