[MITgcm-devel] Large & Yeager 2004

[Patrick Heimbach]

Dimitris,

not sure whether of any interest.
Using the Large & Yeager 2004 bulk formulae
gives very(!) similar costs (in all terms) to using
the Large & Pond 1982 bulk formulae.
Not really surprising since the codes are very similar, and
all constants (eg neutral drag coeff, etc) used are the same.

So, unless the code in bulk_force which I adapted to exf
is not the real LY04 code (which seems unlikely),
I cannot confirm that these bulk formulae would improve
the results.

It also seems to suggest, or does it, that there isn't really a bug
in present exf_bulkformulae code (at least not a significant one).

Well, was worth a try...
-p.

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