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

[Patrick Heimbach]

Prelim. result:
Your checkins make the finite-difference (not adjoint!)
sensitivities increase by 4 orders of magnitude.
That's worrying.
(hard to see how the f.d. gradients could go wrong).
-p.



On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 12:47 -0800, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:
> > go ahead and check in. I'll fix adjoint afterwards.
> 
> OK, updated pkg/seaice/growth.F is checked in.  The fix seems to also take care 
> of a long-standing complaint by Armin that transition zone from ice to no-ice is 
> very abrupt.  This transition is now a bit more gradual.
> 
> > (I realized Martin's EmPmR fix in growth isn't
> > checked in yet either, is that right).
> 
> Yes that's right.  Martin hadn't checked it in and was waiting for your approval 
> before doing this.  I have checked this fix in for him since
> 
> Hope this does not cause havoc with adjoint ...
> 
> D.
> 
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