[MITgcm-devel] serious bug in rStar code

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

Jean-Michel,

> I did not express the things correctly. I meant reducing/increasing
> the variability. So that on the Antartic continental shelf (where eta
> is <0) it should most likely reduce the SSH variability.

you explained it correctly.  I did not think very much before replying.
Problem that I have noted is excessive eta variability over Arctic
continental shelf and Sab Kim and others have seen this problem as a
ring of variability around semi-enclosed shallow seas.  So maybe
rStar/hFac bug is not the culprit.  Maybe it is the bottom boundary
layer formulation ... or something else?

Dimitris

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