[MITgcm-devel] EOS modification

[Patrick Heimbach]

Hi All,

yep, sounds good.
A quick fix from Martin now, which I'll check in,
and an overhaul and AD-related test of the EOS stuff
once it's packaged.

Cheers
-p.

Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> Concerning the EOS things, we were thinking of making a 
> package with all the different Equation of states.
> 
> My view (I should say, "narrow" view) was to try to
> make 1 subroutine for each EOS, that would return
> either rho or alpha or beta (or 2 or the 3 at the same time).
> Those EOS S/R can be called within find_rho & find_alpha/beta
> and made relatively flexible with T & S as argument and 
> also the size of the input/output arrays so that it can 
> be called for 1 single grid point or 1 level of grid-points
> (this would avoid the double version of each EOS).
> I don't know precisely how it can be done, but my
> impression was that it is feasible.
> It goes in the same direction as the modification you suggest
> (not calling find_rho in find_alpha/beta), and it would not be a 
> problem for me that you make this modification.
> 
> But for now, it might be quicker just to fix this rhoConst problem
> and not to change anything else so that Patrick does not have to check
> again if TAF is happy or not with theses changes, since he will have 
> do it anyway when the EOS package is finished.
> 
> Patrick, what do you think ?
> 
> See you,
> 
> Jean-Michel
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