[mpas-developers] specifying tracers
Mark Petersen
mpetersen at lanl.gov
Mon Mar 22 13:59:47 MDT 2010
Michael,
I need to assign an index number to temperature and salinity within the
tracer array. Eventually we will have numerous tracers that will need a
corresponding tracer index.
The easiest idea is to have integer variables
iTemperature=1
iSalinity=2
But that requires manual manipulation and reordering as we add tracers.
A more advanced method is to have an unnumbered list of tracers, perhaps
in the Registry, and some function like
ind = getTracerIndex('temperature')
so that the numbering is automatic and hidden.
Have you given this any thought? Perhaps mpas already has some indexing
capabilities?
Thanks,
Mark
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