Improvements for the topography conditioning routines
Current suggestions
- Bring back the ability of the user to specify the slope bound.
- Must have the ability to read [7.067 0.06] constraints for
compound constraining.
- Must have the ability to read NaNs to flag defaults.
- Add a plot_all script to call all of the plot_*
scripts. It will be a useful aid when checking the results.
- Nesting:
- Put metric factors and spacing back when computing boundary values.
- Revise for cubic interpolation.
- Bring Carlos' method for relaxing the scales near the boundary
into Cond_Topo.
- When GRIDS recognizes cyclic topography,
Cond_Topo should preserve.
- Need a controlled method for interrupting the conditioning. Since the
loop was placed in a function, using ^C loses the current conditioned
topography. Possibilities include:
- Using a MATLAB GUI button when plotting
current slope factor.
- Asking the user every so many iterations if conditioning
should proceed.
- If go with this, need to be able to shut-off this
option.
- Consider introducing a restart from trg_bath option.
- Sometimes when conditioning the slope factor actually increases.
Consider returning the "best so far" topography.
- Create an equivalent FORTRAN version. Either need some interactive
graphics or need three separate programs.
- Determine the precision of the topography in the GRIDS netCDF file.
Use this precision in the median filter.