[MITgcm-devel] FW: question about exner function

Chris Hill cnh at mit.edu
Fri Apr 30 11:20:23 EDT 2004


Andrea,

 I think GRID.h is the best place for it. Alistair/J-M any comments?

Chris 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Molod [mailto:molod at ocean.mit.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 11:08 AM
> To: cnh at mit.edu
> Subject: question about exner function
> 
> hi chris,
> 
> the fizhi package needs the exner function, and it is an 
> expensive thing to do.... i see that at the initial time it 
> is computed in ini_p_ground for the computation of the 
> surface geopotential. so here is my question - which common 
> block is the 'natural' place for this to go? would it go in 
> GRID.h ? i don't see that it is used anywhere else, so if i 
> change ini_p_ground only it seems like that will be enough. 
> this way i could use it in fizhi_wrapper, updating it each 
> time step with rstarfac.
> 
> thanks,
> andrea
> 
> 




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