[MITgcm-devel] another bug in growth.F ?

[Jinlun Zhang]

Dimitris, go ahead removing it from 1 and 2.
Jinlun

Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:

> Jinlun, thanks for getting back.  Can the A22 (0.15) minimum be 
> removed from all computations in growth.F and groatb.F?  There are 
> three places that are affected by A22:
>
> 1. Computation of hsnow, precip, and evap in growth.F.  It definitely 
> needs to be removed from there as this introduces an artificial 
> forcing bias in the solution, even over fully-open-water regions.
>
> 2. Computation of GAREA in growth.F.  I think that it should be 
> removed from there too but am not 100% sure.
>
> 3. Computation of ice thickness HICE in groatb.F.  Removing it from 
> there would cause code to blow up since AREA(I,J,2,bi,bj) is in the 
> denominator.
>
> Should I go ahead and remove from 1 and 2 above but leave as is in 3?
>
> Dimitris
>