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For RRM grids, SQuadGen should be used (available in a separate repository on Github here). See Generate the Grid Mesh (Exodus) File for a new Regionally-Refined Grid for details and examples. The example above follows the convention ne<res>.g. RRM meshes should follow the convention <area refined>_<base resolution>x<refinement level>.g. For example, for a RRM with 4x refinement from ne30 to ne120 over CONUS, we should use the convention conus_ne30x4.g (note that existing meshes use the naming convention <area of refinement>x<refinement level>v<version>.g, but future meshes should use the new naming convention; we also plan to eventually change the extension to _exodus.nc, but I believe this will break nco functionality to automatically detect when to use TempestRemap for mapping when detecting exodus files).
The Exodus file contains only information about the position of the spectral element on the sphere. For SE aware utilities such as TempestRemap, they can use the polynomial order and the reference element map to fill in necessary data such as the locations of the nodal GLL points. For non-SE aware utilities, we need additional meta data, described in the next section.
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land grid descriptor file in SCRIP format
ESMF_RegridWeightGen
geographic distribution for each land surface type along with grid descriptor files for each of those surface types
mkmapdata.sh (found in components/clm/tools/shared/mkmapdata/)
mksurfdata.pl (found in components/clm/tools/clm4_5/mksurfdata_map/)
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