grdseamount
grdseamount - Compute synthetic seamount (Gaussian, parabolic, cone, disc, circular or elliptical) bathymetry
Synopsis
grdseamount [ intable ]
-Iincrement
-Rregion
[ -A[out/in] ]
[ -Cc|d|g|p ]
[ -D[unit] ]
[ -E ]
[ -F[flattening] ]
[ -Ggrdfile ]
[ -L[cut] ]
[ -Mlist ] [ -Nnorm ]
[ -Qbmode/qmode ]
[ -Sscale ]
[ -Tt0[u][/t1[u]/dt[u]|n][+l] ]
[ -Zlevel ]
[ -V[level] ]
[ -bi<binary> ]
[ -fg ]
[ -i<flags> ]
[ -r ]
Note: No space is allowed between the option flag and the associated arguments.
Description
grdseamount will compute the combined shape of multiple synthetic seamounts given their individual shape
parameters. We read a list with seamount locations and sizes and can evaluate either
Gaussian, parabolic, conical, or disc shapes, which may be circular or elliptical, and optionally truncated.
Various scaling options are available to modify the result, including an option to add in
a background depth (more complicated backgrounds may be added via grdmath).
The input must contain lon, lat, radius, height for each seamount.
For elliptical features (-E) we expect lon, lat, azimuth, semi-major, semi-minor,
height instead. If flattening is specified (-F) with no value appended
then a final column with flattening is expected (cannot be used for plateaus).
For temporal evolution of topography the -T option may be used, in which case the
data file must have two final columns with the start and stop time of seamount construction.
In this case you may choose to write out a cumulative shape or just the increments produced
by each time step (see -Q).
Required Arguments
- -Ixinc[unit][=|+][/yinc[unit][=|+]]
- x_inc [and optionally y_inc] is the grid spacing. Optionally,
append a suffix modifier. Geographical (degrees) coordinates: Append
m to indicate arc minutes or s to indicate arc seconds. If one
of the units e, f, k, M, n or u is appended
instead, the increment is assumed to be given in meter, foot, km, Mile,
nautical mile or US survey foot, respectively, and will be converted to
the equivalent degrees longitude at the middle latitude of the region
(the conversion depends on PROJ_ELLIPSOID). If /y_inc is given
but set to 0 it will be reset equal to x_inc; otherwise it will be
converted to degrees latitude. All coordinates: If = is appended
then the corresponding max x (east) or y (north) may be slightly
adjusted to fit exactly the given increment [by default the increment
may be adjusted slightly to fit the given domain]. Finally, instead of
giving an increment you may specify the number of nodes desired by
appending + to the supplied integer argument; the increment is then
recalculated from the number of nodes and the domain. The resulting
increment value depends on whether you have selected a
gridline-registered or pixel-registered grid; see GMT File Formats for
details. Note: if -Rgrdfile is used then the grid spacing has
already been initialized; use -I to override the values.
- -R[unit]xmin/xmax/ymin/ymax[r] (more ...)
- Specify the region of interest.
Optional Arguments
- -A[out/in]
- Build a mask grid, append outside/inside values [1/NaN].
Here, height is ignored and -L, -N and -Z are disallowed
- -C
- Select shape function: choose among c (cone), d (disc), g (Gaussian)
and p (parabolic) shape [Default is Gaussian].
- -Dunit
- Append the unit used for horizontal distances in the input file (see UNITS).
Does not apply for geographic data (-fg) which we convert to km.
- -E
- Elliptical data format [Default is Circular]. Read lon, lat, azimuth,
major, minor, height (m) for each seamount.
- -F[flattening]
- Seamounts are to be truncated to guyots. Append flattening, otherwise we expect
to find it in last input column [no truncation]. Ignored if used with -Cd.
- -Ggrdfile
- Specify the name of the output grid file; see GRID FILE FORMATS below).
If -T is set then grdfile must be a filename template that contains
a floating point format (C syntax). If the filename template also contains
either %s (for unit name) or %c (for unit letter) then we use the corresponding time
(in units specified in -T) to generate the individual file names, otherwise
we use time in years with no unit.
- -L[cut]
- List area, volume, and mean height for each seamount; NO grid is created.
Optionally, append the noise-floor cutoff level below which we ignore area and volume [0].
- -Mlist
- Write the names of all grids that were created to the text file list.
Requires -T.
- -Nnorm
- Normalize grid so maximum grid height equals norm.
- -Qbmode/qmode
- Only to be used in conjunction with -T. Append two different modes settings:
The bmode determines how we construct the surface. Specify c for cumulative
volume through time, or i for incremental volume added for each time slice.
The qmode determines the volume flux curve. Give g for a Gaussian volume flux history
or l for a linear volume flux history between the start and stop times of each feature.
- -Sscale
- Sets optional scale factor for radii [1].
- -Tt0[u][/t1[u]/dt[u]|n][+l]
- Specify t0, t1, and time increment (dt) for sequence of calculations
[Default is one step, with no time dependency]. For a single specific time, just
give start time t0. The unit is years; append k for kyr and M for Myr.
For a logarithmic time scale, append +l and specify n steps instead of dt.
Alternatively, give a file with the desired times in the first column (these times
may have individual units appended, otherwise we assume year). Note that the grid
for t0 (if a range is given) is not written as it is zero and marks the start of
the building history.
- -Zlevel
- Set the background depth [0].
- -bi[ncols][t] (more ...)
- Select native binary input. [Default is 4 input columns].
- -fg
- Geographic grids (dimensions of longitude, latitude) will be converted to
km via a “Flat Earth” approximation using the current ellipsoid parameters.
- -h[i|o][n][+c][+d][+rremark][+rtitle] (more ...)
- Skip or produce header record(s). Not used with binary data.
- -icols[l][sscale][ooffset][,...] (more ...)
- Select input columns (0 is first column).
- -V[level] (more ...)
- Select verbosity level [c].
- -r (more ...)
- Set pixel node registration [gridline].
- -:[i|o] (more ...)
- Swap 1st and 2nd column on input and/or output.
- -^ or just -
- Print a short message about the syntax of the command, then exits (NOTE: on Windows use just -).
- -+ or just +
- Print an extensive usage (help) message, including the explanation of
any module-specific option (but not the GMT common options), then exits.
- -? or no arguments
- Print a complete usage (help) message, including the explanation of
options, then exits.
- --version
- Print GMT version and exit.
- --show-datadir
- Print full path to GMT share directory and exit.
For map distance unit, append unit d for arc degree, m for arc
minute, and s for arc second, or e for meter [Default], f
for foot, k for km, M for statute mile, n for nautical mile,
and u for US survey foot. By default we compute such distances using
a spherical approximation with great circles. Prepend - to a
distance (or the unit is no distance is given) to perform “Flat Earth”
calculations (quicker but less accurate) or prepend + to perform
exact geodesic calculations (slower but more accurate).
Examples
To compute the incremental loads from two elliptical, truncated Gaussian seamounts being constructed
from 3 Ma to 2 Ma and 2.8 M to 1.9 Ma using a linear volumetric production rate,
and output an incremental grid every 0.1 Myr from 3 Ma to 1.9 Ma, we can try:
cat << EOF > t.txt
#lon lat azimuth, semi-major, semi-minor, height tstart tend
0 0 -20 120 60 5000 3.0M 2M
50 80 -40 110 50 4000 2.8M 21.9M
EOF
gmt grdseamount -Rk-1024/1022/-1122/924 -I2000 -Gsmt_%3.1f_%s.nc t.txt -T3M/1.9M/0.1M -Qi/l -Dk -E -F0.2 -Cg -Ml.lis