[MITgcm-devel] SFLUX

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

JM, is pkg/diagnostics SFLUX literally supposed to be the "net surface salt 
flux", that is, EmPmR is actually supposed to have zero net contribution to 
pkg/diagnostics SFLUX as opposed to pkg/exf SFLUX, which is defined to be 
equivalent to EmPmR?

If yes, then since Tue Nov 7 00:38:22 2006 UTC (3 days, 5 hours ago) I have 
screwed up diags_oceanic_surf_flux.F and I need to change it back ASAP.

I changed diags_oceanic_surf_flux.F because I noticed that SFLUX was exactly 
identical to SRELAX for:
#ifdef NONLIN_FRSURF
          IF ( (nonlinFreeSurf.GT.0 .OR. usingPCoords)
      &        .AND. useRealFreshWaterFlux ) THEN
and for: salt_EvPrRn=0.

Now I realize that you probably "did" mean SFLUX to be identical to SRELAX for 
above conditions.  Sorry!

But this also means that pkg/diagnostics SFLUX is not a very useful quantity for 
most oceanographers and that we should add a separate freshwater flux output to 
pkg/diagnostics.  No?

Please advise.

Dimitris

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