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Cliffs User Manual

Geophysics 2015-08-07 v3

Abstract

Cliffs is an open-source relative of MOST (Method Of Splitting Tsunamis) numerical model, implemented as described in (Tolkova, 2014, Pure and Appl. Geophys., 171(9), 2289-2314), with some modifications thereafter. Cliffs features: Shallow-Water approximation with an option to manipulate numerical dispersion; Use of Cartesian or spherical (lon/lat) coordinates; 1D and 2D configurations; Structured co-located grid with (optionally) varying spacing; Runup on land; Initial conditions or boundary forcing; Grid nesting with one-way coupling; Parallelized with OpenMP; NetCDF format of input/output data. This user manual accompanies Cliffs code distribution on GitHub, and is updated following essential updates to the code.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1410.0753,
  title  = {Cliffs User Manual},
  author = {Elena Tolkova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0753},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

18 pages, 5 figures; source code is available via http://elena.tolkova.com/Cliffs.htm or https://github.com/Delta-function/cliffs-src

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