[MITgcm-devel] drag coefficient parameterization(s)

[Martin Losch]

Patrick,

have you asked the Large and/or Yeager themselves?
I am guessing that this is more of a problem for daily or monthly  
winds which fall below U=11m/s very often, right?

Scaling of C_D according to forcing field producs appears a  
reasonable solution to me. It's not the first time that I hear that  
the bulk formulae have to "in harmony" with the applied forcing fields.

Martin

On 16 Aug 2007, at 00:17, Patrick Heimbach wrote:

>
> Hi there,
>
> Armin Koehl prompted a discussion on the parameterization of
> the drag coefficient which I am trying to summarize and quickly
> hacked into a memo, and am appending for discussion.
>
> Bottom line is that by following Large & Yeager 2004
> (which is our model default even for Large & Pond 1981),
> we are getting too low wind stresses.
> Appended note is meant for discussion.
>
> Cheers
> -Patrick
>
> <bulkformulae_memo.pdf>
>
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