[MITgcm-devel] units for empmr in diagnostics

[Martin Losch]

The units for the netcdf variable empmr are defined in model/src/ 
ini_mnc_vars.F, but the netcdf variable empmr is not really written  
to a netcdf file except for in seaice_do_diags.F
All of this is not so important, but I guess that if the internal  
units of empmr is kg/m^2/s, then it makes no sense to convert the  
stuff back to m/s for output. If no-one objects, I''l change the  
units of the netcdf variables (and diagnostic variables), EmPmR,  
si_EmPmRtave, and SIempmr to kg/m^2/s.

M.
On 5 Dec 2007, at 09:59, Martin Losch wrote:

> sorry, I meant, for SIempmr, the units are obviously kg/m^2/s but  
> it's not documented in the corresponding diagUnits. EXFempmr is in  
> m/s and I assume that all of the input empmr/precip/evap/runoff is  
> still in m/s, so should we change this one diagUnits in pkg/seaice  
> and not worry about the different units or should empmr be  
> converted back to m/s before written as SIempmr?
>
> Martin
> On 5 Dec 2007, at 09:54, Martin Losch wrote:
>
>> Hi Jean-Michel,
>> did you change the diagUnits to kg/m^2/s in all diagnostics and IO  
>> of EmPmR after changing the units of the actual field? I am a  
>> little confused about units of empmr at the moment.
>>
>> Martin
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