This tutorial section aims to provide a set of more practical, step-by-step instructions on how to first get GLIMMER started after the successful installation and familiarise yourself with the different climate driver options. In general, this tutorial is intended to address the question:
’I have successfully compiled GLIMMER, now what? Do I have to write my own config files,
climate drivers etc? I want to see some ice sheet modelling pronto!’
The really short version of an answer to this is type
glide_launch.py myconfig.config
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where myconfig.config is a configuration file for GLIMMER as described in the documentation. If
you have a config file and all the necessary data ready, this is how you get GLIMMER
started.
Assuming that if you are reading this, you probably won’t yet have your own config file ready, so
you might want to read on: