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Allow for user-configurable physical constants

Open spencerkclark opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

For planetary atmospheres other than Earth's, physical constants like the gravitational acceleration and the planetary radius will be different. To accommodate results from simulations of these atmospheres, aospy will need a mechanism to allow users to set these constants themselves (rather than have them be hard-coded to Earth's values).

xref: @spencerahill's https://github.com/spencerahill/aospy/pull/223#issuecomment-340331253

spencerkclark avatar Nov 03 '17 11:11 spencerkclark

This is a particular example of the broader issue of supporting user-specified config, c.f. #145. But I think it's worth having this separate issue to track this, as #145 is pretty open ended.

spencerahill avatar Nov 03 '17 15:11 spencerahill

Right, I see #145 as more global configuration-type stuff; this is likely to vary from Run to Run or Model to Model, so it might require a different approach.

spencerkclark avatar Nov 03 '17 17:11 spencerkclark