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This PR adds new capabilities to grdseamount and grdflexure. These allows us to compute a variable seamount density structure informed from the dozen of so seamounts that have been imaged seismically. There are three new options:

  1. -HH/rho_l/rho_h[+ddensify][+ppower]. This defines the rho(r,z) function for a seamount with reference to a standard large seamount of height H and various parameters.
  2. -Kdensmodel writes out a crossection grid of the normalized reference seamount, mostly for use to illustrate the variable density function (see figure below).
  3. -Wrhogrid will write out one or more vertically-averaged density grids that go with the one or more seamount grids produced. These can be used in flexure calculations as variable load densities.

The documentation has been updated and a new figure has been added:

GMT_seamount_density

grdflexure has received a few changes as well in order to handle variable density structures:

  1. The -D option accepts a load density as -, which means it is variable.
  2. A new -Hdensgrid passes the vertically-averaged density grid (or grids via a template, like for the topography).

Both man pages will see more updates with examples once these are fully worked out and a paper that is in works sees the light of day [it will be Open Access which can then be linked to].

Because these are custom research tools in a supplement I would like these approved and merged asap.

@PaulWessel PaulWessel added the enhancement Improving an existing feature label Mar 11, 2022
@PaulWessel PaulWessel added this to the 6.4.0 milestone Mar 11, 2022
@PaulWessel PaulWessel self-assigned this Mar 11, 2022
@PaulWessel PaulWessel merged commit 77b7305 into master Mar 11, 2022
@PaulWessel PaulWessel deleted the seamount-density branch March 11, 2022 12:47
@maxrjones maxrjones added the add-changelog Add PR to the changelog label Mar 18, 2022
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