Makef22: An ADCIRC Model Fort.22 Input File Creation Tool for Surface Wind and Pressure Forcing
Abstract
The User's Manual for the Makef22 software tool, makef22.pl, contains descriptions of the software, including its functionality and usage. The Makef22 software is a Perl-based program that creates an ADvanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC) Model Surface Wind and Pressure Forcing file (fort.22) using the NWS=2 option. The software was developed for ADCIRC version 45.11. In addition to the creation of fort.22 files, the Makef22 utility also can read and process an existing fort.22 file in order to (1) elongate the record either by adding zero valued records at the beginning of the fort.22 file or by repeating the first time record a specified number of times, and/or (2) ramp a specified portion of the fort.22 records from zero to full-scale values. This utility was designed so that readers for new data sources can easily be developed and incorporated into the Makef22 utility. Surface wind and pressure data sources on rectangular, regular grids at known times are read and interpolated onto an ADCIRC finite element mesh (FEM) at user-specified times. The results can be stored in an ASCII text, ADCIRC model specific, fort.22 forcing file.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 07, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA474939
Entities
People
- Brett Estrade
- Cheryl A. Blain
- Robert S. Linzell
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory