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

[Martin Losch]

Hi,
so I carried out this test, and set the second and third time leve to  
2 after reading the pickup file, and the pickup still works, that is  
only the first time level of UICE/VICE/HEFF/AREA is needed in the  
pickup file. What should we do about it? I am pretty sure that  
simplifying this piece of the code will upset your runs and who knows  
whose. It is probably best to leave it as it is.

I have decide, that I am not up to implementing mnc pickups for the  
seaice package, I had a look at pkg/land/land_mnc_init.F and that put  
me off. It's probably not that important, just convenient.

Martin

On Mar 20, 2006, at 7:11 PM, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:

>> 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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