INIFOR - Initialization and Forcing of PALM-4U (v1.1.5)

INIFOR provides the meteorological fields required to initialize and drive the
urban-climate model PALM-4U. The required meteorological fields are
interpolated from output data of the meso-scale model COSMO.

COMPILATION

1. Customize ./Makefile and ./tests/Makefile (netCDF library location, compiler
   and parameters, use Makefile.ifort as a template if you want to use the Intel
   Fortran compiler)
2. $ make

USAGE

1. Customize ./namelist (number or grid points and spacings, end_time)
2. $ ./bin/inifor -path <scenario path> -date <YYYYMMDD> -clat <latitude> -clon <longitude>

All COMMAND-LINE PARAMETERS

-date <date>: Start date of the simulation in the form YYYMMDD. Currently,
    INIFOR assumes that the simulation starts at O UTC on that day.
    Default: 20130721

-hhl <netCDF file>: Location of the netCDF file containing the vertical COSMO-DE
    grid (hhh = height of half layers, i.e. vertical cell faces).
    Default: <scenario path>/hhl.nc

-mode profile: Produce average profiles instead of three-dimensional fields as 
    initial conditions.

-n <namelist file>: Location of the PALM-4U namelist file. INIFOR expects the
    file to contain two namelists, inipar and d3par, from which it will read
    grid parameters and the simulation time. Default: ./namelist

-o <ouput file>: Name of the INIFOR output file. Default: ./palm-4u-input.nc

-p0 <pressure>: Surface pressure at z=0 in the PALM-4U domain [Pa].
    Default: 1e5 Pa = 1000 hPa

-path <scenario path>: Scenario path, i.e. the path of the meteorological input
    data. Default: ./

-soil <netCDF file>: Location of the netCDF file containing the COSMO-DE soil type
    map.
    Default: <scenario path>/soil.nc

-static <static driver file>: Location of the netCDF file containing the static
    driver file for the case to be simulated with PALM-4U. Optional parameter.
    Default: None

-ug <velocity>: Specifies the geostrophic wind in x direction [m/s]. Default: 0

-vg <velocity>: Specifies the geostrophic wind in y direction [m/s]. Default: 0

-z0 <height>: Specifies the elevation of the the PALM-4U domain above sea level [m].
    Default: 35 m