[MITgcm-devel] free drift ice model

Jinlun Zhang zhang at apl.washington.edu
Thu Nov 30 13:16:26 EST 2006


There is no contraint on LSR time step. But generally it is better to be 
the same as the ocean time step. If the ocean is not resolving inertial 
oscillations, ice probably does not have too.
Jinlun

Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:

>> I thought I have put there, No?
>
>
> I don't know.  I seem to remember that we already had discussion about 
> maximum time step for LSR solver and that we had concluded that it 
> should not be longer than one hour in order not to alias inertial 
> oscillations.  Maybe that was inertial oscillations from ocean 
> forcing, where they are explicitly resolved, rather than a constraint 
> from LSR solver?
>
> D.
>



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