[MITgcm-devel] pickups: mdsio and mnc with unorthodox fields

Dimitris Menemenlis menemenlis at sbcglobal.net
Mon Mar 20 13:11:24 EST 2006


> Wouldn't the first (the current or last) timelevel be sufficient, because the
> seaice model uses some "modified" Eulerian time stepping, which only requires
> the previous time step.


Martin, I think you are right, i.e., only level one is needed for the pickup 
files.  One way to find out for sure is to reset levels 2 and 3 to zero in 
SEAICE_READ_PICKUP and to see if results after a pickup remain bit-identical.

Dimitris



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