MOM is instrumented with a large number of diagnostic options for analyzing model solutions. Some diagnostics simply output prognostic quantities while others perform involved computations to generate derived quantities. Diagnostic datasets can be saved in NetCDF format and the recommended way of visualizing and manipulating this data is with Ferret. Ferret is a graphical analysis tool developed by Steve Hankin (1994) at NOAA/PMEL ( email: ferret@pmel.noaa.gov, web: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ferret/home.html).
Production scripts
Production scripts are left to the researcher although they can be modeled after run_mom. At the minimum, commands must be added to allow for automatic reloading, archiving of results, and handling problems associated with long running experiments which may be site specific.