High resolution global simulations using the HydrostaticFreeSurfaceModel

[simone-silvestri]

Following the distributed optimization of Oceananigans, we have been performing global simulations using the HydrostaticFreeSurfaceModel and an ImmersedBoundaryGrid to represent bathymetry to benchmark the performance and scalability of our code base.

Although performance, and not results, was the focus of the investigation, these simulations still produced quite some mesmerizing results:

10 km resolution, temperature, and vorticity in the Pacific, the Kuroshio, and the Aghulas current

sst.mp4

vorticity-kuroshio.mp4

vorticity-pacific.mp4

vorticity-aghulas.mp4

[glwagner]

Are these movies or static images? The movies work! Probably we should adapt some of these for the README!