[MITgcm-devel] changing some diagnostics names

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Hello Dimitris,

I can't call you right now since my phone is not working.
I think I did not make things clear:
Those diag will be added, we will keep TFLUX & SFLUX
(in order to do a true budget), and will add also
2 others diags for surfaceForcingT & surfaceForcingS
(with scaling factor) (names ? surForcT & surForcS ? 
or something else ?).
Some diags will be identical under some circumstances,
or could be deduces from others, but with NLFS & realFreshWater,
we need all of those diags.

regarding the replacement of TICE, we don't really need a prefix
"oce" since there is no ambiguity, but I am ready to
change for oceFreez.

Jean-Michel

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:01:02PM -0800, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:
> JM, thanks for taking care of this.  I prefer all your 1rst choices below.
> 
> >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.)
> 
> To make sure that I understand:
> 
> 1) oceQnet is surfaceForcingT rescaled?  Is it or is it not identical to 
> TFLUX?
> 
> 2) oceSflux is exactly what SFLUX was prior to 7 nov 06?
> 
> 3) surfaceForcingS is the "sum" of oceFWflx and oceSflux, where oceSflux 
> includes SRELAX and also virtual salt fluxes when model is driven with 
> virtual salt fluxes?
> 
> >  79 |PRESSURE| 15 |SM      MR      |m               |Cell-Center Height
> >that I would rather change to the isomorphic name "RCENTER" (similar
> >to RSURF),
> 
> OK.
> 
> >  75 |TICE    |  1 |SM      U1      |W/m2           |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.
> 
> oceFreez  ?
> 
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