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Oceananigans.jl

🌊 Fast and friendly fluid dynamics on CPUs and GPUs.

Oceananigans is a fast, friendly, flexible software package for finite volume simulations of the nonhydrostatic and hydrostatic Boussinesq equations on CPUs and GPUs. It runs on GPUs (wow, fast!), though we believe Oceananigans makes the biggest waves with its ultra-flexible user interface that makes simple simulations easy, and complex, creative simulations possible.

Oceananigans is written in Julia by the Climate Modeling Alliance and heroic external collaborators.

Quick install

Oceananigans is a registered Julia package. So to install it,

  1. Download Julia.

  2. Launch Julia and type

julia> using Pkg

julia> Pkg.add("Oceananigans")
Julia 1.9 is required

Oceananigans requires Julia 1.9 or later.

If you're new to Julia and its wonderful Pkg manager, the Oceananigans wiki provides more detailed installation instructions.

The Oceananigans "knowledge base"

It's deep and includes:

Getting in touch

Whether you need help getting started with Oceananigans, found a bug, want Oceananigans to be more awesome, or just want to chat about computational oceanography, you've got a few options for getting in touch:

  • Start a discussion. This is great for general questions about numerics, science, experimental or under-documented features, and for getting help setting up a neat new numerical experiment.
  • Open an issue. Issues are best if you think the Oceananigans source code needs attention: a bug, a sign error (😱), an important missing feature, or a typo in this documentation 👀.
  • Sign up for the Julia Slack and join the #oceananigans channel because we love to chat.

Citing

If you use Oceananigans as part of your research, teaching, or other activities, we would be grateful if you could cite our work and mention Oceananigans by name.

@article{OceananigansJOSS,
  doi = {10.21105/joss.02018},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02018},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {The Open Journal},
  volume = {5},
  number = {53},
  pages = {2018},
  author = {Ali Ramadhan and Gregory LeClaire Wagner and Chris Hill and Jean-Michel Campin and Valentin Churavy and Tim Besard and Andre Souza and Alan Edelman and Raffaele Ferrari and John Marshall},
  title = {Oceananigans.jl: Fast and friendly geophysical fluid dynamics on GPUs},
  journal = {Journal of Open Source Software}
}

Papers and preprints using Oceananigans

If you have work using Oceananigans that you would like to have listed here, please open a pull request to add it or let us know!

  1. Wagner, G. L., Hillier, A., Constantinou, N. C., Silvestri, S., Souza, A., Burns, K., Ramadhan, A., Hill, C., Campin, J.-M., Marshall, J., and Ferrari, R. (2023). CATKE: a turbulent-kinetic-energy-based parameterization for ocean microturbulence with dynamic convective adjustment ESS Open Archive. DOI: 10.22541/essoar.168748454.49694722/v1

  2. Ramadhan, A., Marshall, J. C., Souza, A. N., Lee, X. K., Piterbarg, U., Hillier, A., Wagner, G. L., Rackauckas, C., Hill, C., Campin, J.-M., and Ferrari, R. (2022). Capturing missing physics in climate model parameterizations using neural differential equations ESS Open Archive. DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10512533.1

  3. Gupta, M., & Thompson, A. F. (2022). Regimes of sea-ice floe melt: Ice-ocean coupling at the submesoscales Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, e2022JC018894. DOI: 10.1029/2022JC018894

  4. Simoes-Sousa, I. T., Tandon, A., Pereira, F., Lazaneo, C. Z., and Mahadevan, A. (2022). Mixed layer eddies supply nutrients to enhance the spring phytoplankton bloom Frontiers in Marine Sciences, 9, 825027. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.825027

  5. Chor, T., Wenegrat, J. O., and Taylor, J. (2022). Insights into the mixing efficiency of submesoscale Centrifugal-Symmetric instabilities. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(10), 2273-2287. DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-21-0259.1

  6. Bire, S., Kang, W., Ramadhan, A., Campin, J.-M., and Marshall, J. (2022). Exploring ocean circulation on icy moons heated from below. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 127, e2021JE007025. DOI: 10.1029/2021JE007025

  7. Coakley, S., Miles, T. N., Glenn, S., and Lim, H. S. (2021). Observation-Large eddy simulation comparison of ocean mixing under Typhoon Soulik (2018), OCEANS 2021: San Diego – Porto, 2021, pp. 1-7, DOI: 10.23919/OCEANS44145.2021.9705670

  8. Arnscheidt, C. W., Marshall, J., Dutrieux, P., Rye, C. D., and Ramadhan, A. (2021). On the settling depth of meltwater escaping from beneath Antarctic ice shelves, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(7), 2257–2270. DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-20-0178.1

  9. Wagner, G. L., Chini, G. P., Ramadhan, A., Gallet, B., and Ferrari, R. (2021). Near-inertial waves and turbulence driven by the growth of swell, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(5), 1337-1351. DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-20-0178.1

  10. Buffett, B. A. (2021). Conditions for turbulent Ekman layers in precessionally driven flow, Geophysical Journal International, 226(1), 56–65. DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggab088

  11. Bhamidipati, N., Souza, A.N., and Flierl, G.R. (2020). Turbulent mixing of a passive scalar in the ocean mixed layer. Ocean Modelling, 149, 101615. DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2020.101615

  12. Souza, A. N., Wagner, G. L., Ramadhan, A., Allen, B., Churavy, V., Schloss, J., Campin, J. M., Hill, C., Edelman, A., Marshall, J., Flierl, G., and Ferrari, R. (2020). Uncertainty quantification of ocean parameterizations: Application to the K‐Profile‐Parameterization for penetrative convection. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, e2020MS002108. DOI: 10.1029/2020MS002108