[MITgcm-devel] free drift ice model

[Martin.Losch at awi.de]

When I tried to understand the dynamics and lsr code, I could not find any implicit coriolis terms. Therefore I am almost 
positive that the implicit coriolis term (as described in Zhang+Hibler98) is not implement in pkg/seaice.

M

Martin Losch
Alfred Wegener Institute 
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jinlun Zhang <zhang at apl.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:16 pm
Subject: Re: [MITgcm-devel] free drift ice model

> 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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