Examples of LPT Function
- Kester Scandrett
- Former user (Deleted)
- Duy Pham
An example of the LPT function may be seen in Figure 1. This example consists of a rectangular domain with flat bottom, an open boundary to the east and a flow boundary along the southwest edge. U component masks were inserted to demonstrate the functionality of the Lagrangian Particle Tracks computations when masks are used.
Figure 1 Harbor_U grid showing the masks, boundaries and initial particle locations.
The model represents the vertical component as a depth averaged system with 1 sigma layer. The depths of the 5 drifters are initialized at specified depths.
The results of the simulations are presented in Figure 2 showing the trajectories of the 5 drifters over one day.
Figure 3 shows the particle tracks colored by elevation and with random walk applied. Even though there was no vertical component, the tidal range is seen to result in changing particle elevations.