Cookbook

In the cookbook, you can find hints and tips for working with PyLag; explanations of different aspects of PyLag’s functionality; examples of how to use PyLag in different contexts; and developer’s guidelines.

• Particle initial positions
  • Release zones
  • Sets of release zones
  • Creating initial position files
• Boundary conditions
  • Vertical boundary condition calculators
  • Horizontal boundary condition calculators
  • Developing PyLag: Adding new boundary condition calculators
• Beaching
  • Beaching in PyLag
• Fixed vertical positioning
  • PyLag configuration options
  • Controlling a particle’s vertical position
  • Surface only simulations
• Surface and bottom boundary layer dynamics
  • Example: Correcting the near bottom velocity field using FVCOM data for the Tamar Esturary
• Settling
  • Settling velocity calculators
  • Developing PyLag: Adding new settling velocity calculators
• Individual based modelling
  • Mortality
• Regridding
  • The input grid
  • Creating the new grid
  • Regridding the data
  • Plotting the result