[MITgcm-devel] changing some diagnostics names

[Baylor Fox-Kemper]

Hi Jean-Michel,
    That sounds good.  I would also recommend cleaning up:
   87 |DFrE_TH |  1 |WM      LR      |degC.m^3/s      |Vertical  
Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature (Explicit part)
   88 |DIFx_TH |  1 |UU   089MR      |degC.m^3/s      |Zonal       
Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature
   89 |DIFy_TH |  1 |VV   088MR      |degC.m^3/s      |Meridional  
Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature
   90 |DFrI_TH |  1 |WM      LR      |degC.m^3/s      |Vertical  
Diffusive Flux of Pot.Temperature (Implicit part)

   94 |DFrE_SLT|  1 |WM      LR      |psu.m^3/s       |Vertical  
Diffusive Flux of Salinity    (Explicit part)
   95 |DIFx_SLT|  1 |UU   096MR      |psu.m^3/s       |Zonal       
Diffusive Flux of Salinity
   96 |DIFy_SLT|  1 |VV   095MR      |psu.m^3/s       |Meridional  
Diffusive Flux of Salinity
   97 |DFrI_SLT|  1 |WM      LR      |psu.m^3/s       |Vertical  
Diffusive Flux of Salinity    (Implicit part)

I think it would be nicer to have them all have the same name:

DFxE_*
DFyE_*
DFrE_*
DFrI_*

Of course, it is redundant to have the E for the horizontal fluxes,  
but the naming would be better if they were more similar.
    -Baylor




On Nov 13, 2006, at 7:08 PM, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> regarding diagnostics that are filled from S/R  
> DIAGS_OCEANIC_SURF_FLUX :
>
> I think it would be nice to have diagnostics name where
> the ocean explicitly appears (since those fluxes go to the ocean).
> the reason is that we will need similar diagnostics
> (tx,ty,EmPmR,Qnet,Qsw) when running an ocean+sea-ice set-up,
> for the atmospheric fluxes (atmosphere / ocean+sea-ice interface).
> I suggest "oce" as a suffix (since we already have EXF, SI_, SI),
> and propose, for consistency, to rename few diagnostics:
>
> oceTAUX, oceTAUY        <- replace TAUX,TAUY
> oceQnet (or oceQNET)    new, Qnet diagnostics
> oceQsw  (or oceQSW)     <- replace SWFLUX
> oceFWflx (or oceEmPmR)  new, EmPmR diagnostics
>         (prefer the 1rst one since melting/freezing contribution is  
> included)
> oceSflux (or SaltFlux)  new, saltFlux diagnostics
>         (prefer the 1rst one, consistent with the others diags.)
>
> Now, since it's a pain to change some diagnostics name, I would rather
> do the changes once for all of them. I noticed also 2 diagnostics with
> a confusing name:
>   79 |PRESSURE| 15 |SM      MR      |m               |Cell-Center  
> Height
> that I would rather change to the isomorphic name "RCENTER" (similar
> to RSURF),
> and:
>   75 |TICE    |  1 |SM      U1      |W/m^2           |heat from  
> melt/freeze
>                                                       of sea-ice,  
> >0 increases theta
> that I found confusing since we have several Tice variables in the  
> code
> (for sea-ice temperature) and some Tice output files.
> I propose instead a name like FREEZING or QFREEZE (or something  
> else ?)
> since this is non zero only when allowFreezing is true.
>
> Waiting for your comments,
>
> Cheers,
> Jean-Michel
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