[MITgcm-devel] spikes in heatflux/icegrowth/empmr

Martin Losch Martin.Losch at awi.de
Wed Dec 5 11:00:32 EST 2007


As discussed on the phone, the problem goes away when I set  
SEAICE_availHeatFrac=1/3days, which is what Ian Fenty (and Miles  
McPhee, for that matter) has been suggesting for a long time.

M.

On 5 Dec 2007, at 15:24, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:

> Martin, do your spikes occur during the first time step?  Are they  
> caused by adjustment of sea ice to initial water temperature or is  
> it something else?
>
> Which specific unfortunate parameterization are you referring to?   
> There are many ;-)
>
> Also out of curiosity what is your domain's horizontal dimensions  
> and grid spacing?
>
> D.
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