[MITgcm-devel] list troubles

[Ed Hill]

Hi Patrick,

Yes, theres been some odd things happening with the MITgcm-* email lists
since the earlier of the two power outages and I'll try to figure out
whats wrong.

Ed

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 10:00, Patrick Heimbach wrote:
> I thought I had sent this mail to mitgcm-devel
> on the weekend, but it doesn't seem to have gotten there;
> maybe there's a problem with the lists as a
> consequence of the power outage on Friday?
> 
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Patrick Heimbach <heimbach at mit.edu>
> To: mitgcm-devel at mitgcm.org
> Subject: KPP bug for initialisation of minKPPhbl
> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:11:47 -0400
> 
> 
> There's a bug in the initialisation of
> minimum KPP boundary layer depth.
> minKPPhbl is set in kpp_readparms.F to be
>       minKPPhbl     = drF(1)*0.5
> 
> but drF(K) is only set afterwards in S/R ini_vertical_grid
> Thus, minKPPhbl is always zero, leading to a too slow
> establishment of a boundary layer.
> I am going to move it to kpp_init.
> (It may be somewhat debatable anyways whether a 
> drF(1)-dependent minimal depth is at all meaningful.)
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