Compatibility with outputs from other lagrangian tools

[claudiofgcardoso]

Hello!

First of all, thank you for making this tool public! After reading a few papers that use the LAVD to detect and track RCLS (mainly the Abernathey and Haller, 2018), I became very interested in trying to apply them to my case study. If I run a lagrangian simulation with ROMS modelled outputs and OceanParcels for particle advection, is it possible to then run the Floater?

Cheers,
Cláudio

[rabernat]

Hi Claudio. Thanks for your interest in this package. Fair warning: It is not really maintained any more.

If I run a lagrangian simulation with ROMS modelled outputs and OceanParcels for particle advection, is it possible to then run the Floater?

Yes, this should be possible. The function you would use is find_convex_contours. It takes as an input the LAVD field. You would have to calculate LAVD outside of floater, e.g. by outputting vorticity from OceanParcels.