wfdiff

Disclaimer: This utility code was written in Matlab by Carl Tape and Vipul Silwal, then rewritten in Python by Lion Krischer Lion Krischer (2015) then upgraded by Julien Thurin (2022).

The code is functional with Python version 3.6 and up, but the test suite is currently broken.

Map plots are now handled by the Cartopy module, which replaces the previous Basemap module that has reached its EOS in 2020.

I would like to re-emphasize the original author's warning:

⚠️ This package is work in progress and NOT YET READY FOR PRODUCTIVE USE.:

Installation

Installing Conda

wfdiff has a couple of dependencies (please check env_wfdiff.yml if you prefer to manually install dependencies). We recommand that you install wfdiff using conda. If Anaconda or (Miniconda) is not available on you system, please download and install Anaconda for your system.

If you have Anaconda already install and you need to update it, you can do so with

conda update conda

Create the conda environment and install wfdiff

The following will download the latest version of wfdiff, create a conda environment (named wfdiff) and install wfdiff and all of its dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/krischer/wfdiff.git
cd wfdiff
conda env create -f env_wfdiff.yml

Activate the newly create environment and install wfdiff

conda activate wfdiff

(On windows just with $ activate wfdiff). Remember to activate it everytime you want to use wfdiff. You can quit the wfdiff environment with conda deactivate.

You can also update an existing wfdiff environment with

conda env update -n wfdiff --file env_wfdiff.yml

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Note: Depending on your cluster, the mpi4py shipping with Anaconda might not work with the MPI on your machine. It is best to uninstall the mpi4py shipping with Anaconda:

conda remove mpi4py

Now make sure the correct mpi is active (e.g. mpicc and consorts point to the correct executables) and install mpi4py with

conda install pip
pip install mpi4py

This will cause mpi4py to be compiled with the MPI compiler on your system which should resolve any issues.

Running wfdiff

To run the code, run the run_wfdiff_test.py with

python run_wfdiff_test.py

As these calculations can potentially take a long time, you can also run it with MPI:

mpirun -n 2 python run_wfdiff.py

Note that the number of available ressources may differ on your machine.