[MITgcm-devel] seaice adjoint and EVP

Patrick Heimbach heimbach at MIT.EDU
Sat Jun 23 11:06:07 EDT 2007


Done
(essentially; easy to add thsice, and seaice dynamics).
See
verification/offline_exf_seaice/
Adjoint to follow soon.
-p.



On May 23, 2007, at 8:28 AM, chris hill wrote:

> Martim, Jean-Michel, Patrick etc...,
>
>  It would really nice to be able to run the sea-ice calculations in  
> a controlled "offline" mode. This would help do sanity checks on  
> forward and reverse sea-ice. It would also then be straightforward  
> to make comparisons with scheisse :-). Are we in a position to do  
> that or are there still some exf, sea-ice, thsice, bulkf etc...  
> issues outstanding?
>
> Chris
> Martin Losch wrote:
>> Hi Jinlun,
>> the evp-solver is only in place for the C-grid. I don't have the  
>> time to code the solver for the b-grid now. The b-grid code (for  
>> LSR) is still working, but I have not kept it up to date, so there  
>> may be a few thing different other than the different grids.
>> In general I though that the c-grid is perfect for evp as all the  
>> discretizations fall in place naturally. Only for this \delta term  
>> one needs to average from center to corner points and vice versa  
>> (have a look at seaice_calc_strainrates and seaice_evp). However,  
>> there may be issues with the coriolis terms (commonly a problem  
>> with the c-grid).
>> Actually, Elizabeth told us that she masks ice velocities over  
>> open water in CICE.
>> Now we are a little stuck, aren't we?
>> Martin
>> PS. I need to be able to reproduce these results myself (I haven't  
>> been able to, yet), maybe I can debug the stuff this way. Via  
>> email etc. it's quite demanding (o:
>> On 21 May 2007, at 19:15, Jinlun Zhang wrote:
>>> I wouldn't think C-grid is problematic with EVP as we have seen.  
>>> But just to make sure, is it possible to use the original B-grid  
>>> EVP to see if the same things occur? There was a B-grid ice model  
>>> setup in place that may be used for doing B-grid.
>>> Better not zap out things over open ocean. Otherwise,  
>>> discontinuity may occur and ocean may be screwed up.
>>> Jinlun
>>>
>>>>> Hi Martin,
>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. Are these figures all with with zMin = 0?
>>>>>
>>>> In this case it may be worth turning of individual terms in the  
>>>> rhs  of the momentum equations
>>>> 1. dphiSurf/dx and dphiSurf/dy (in seaice_dynsolver)
>>>> 2. surface wind stress (taux/y=0 in seaice_get_dynforcing)
>>>> 3. ice-ocean stress (DWATN in seaice_evp)
>>>> 4. Coriolis
>>>> 5. stressDivergence
>>>> 4 and 5 should be zero over open ocean anyway so I do not see  
>>>> how  these terms can lead to the stripes.
>>>> We should get to the bottom of what is causing these stripes.  
>>>> that  way we can probably understand the noise in the ice  
>>>> fields, too.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, all the figures and results under
>>>>> http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/arctic/output/tests/
>>>>> (except for the oldtest subdirectory) are with zMin=0.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. Do you have an EVP run that does not blow up at all  
>>>>>> (regardless  of noise)?
>>>>>
>>>>> I have not run any of the zMin=0/SEAICEuseFlooding=.true. tests  
>>>>> out  for very
>>>>> long, but I am almost certain that none of these new  
>>>>> integrations  will crash,
>>>>> including the SEAICE_deltaTevp=60.
>>>>> The crashes had to do with snow accumulation and could happen  
>>>>> to  both LSR or to
>>>>> EVP solutions.
>>>>
>>>> That's good news. It mean that we can (in principle) maskRHS  
>>>> flag and  not worry about the stripes.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 3. What's the convergence criterion for LSR, and how many   
>>>>>> interations do you allow/do? In other words how close is the  
>>>>>> LSR  solution to VP?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>       LSR_ERROR          = 2e-4,
>>>>>       SOLV_MAX_ITERS=1500
>>>>
>>>> That's not very much, is it? For an accurate VP solution I would  
>>>> put  LSR_ERROR = 1e-7 to 1e-13, right?
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> c. the same is true for the wind-ice/ocean-ice stress terms  
>>>>>> which  in involve
>>>>>>  averaging perpendicular to the stripes (unless the turning  
>>>>>> angle  is not
>>>>>> equal to zero, in which case there is also averaging in the  
>>>>>> other  directions,
>>>>>> but you don't do that, do you?).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No I use SEAICE_airTurnAngle=SEAICE_waterTurnAngle=0.
>>>>
>>>> Good.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> About question 3 (is it really a VP solution): Could you  
>>>>>> diagnose  SIsigI and SIsigII (snapshots!!!! I guess one is  
>>>>>> enough) for all  (or some) solutions and
>>>>>>  plot them (plot(SIsigII(:),SIsigI(:),'x')? These should be  
>>>>>> the  principle components of sigma normalized by the strength/ 
>>>>>> pressure P.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> With SEAICE_dumpFreq, SIGMA1, SIGMA2, and SIGMA12 are diagnosed  
>>>>> by  default for
>>>>> the EVP solutions but not for LSR.  Are these the same as  
>>>>> SIsigI  and SIsigII?
>>>>> Figure for SIGMA1, SIGMA2 for EVP solution is here:
>>>>> http://ecco2.jpl.nasa.gov/data1/arctic/output/tests/figs/ 
>>>>> SIGMA2232.ps
>>>>> Does it look as expected?
>>>>
>>>> sigma1/2/12 are not the principle stress components. I have  
>>>> added  diagnostics that are called SIsigI and SIsigII, which is  
>>>> what you  want. In principle you could computed them yourself  
>>>> (from snapshots):
>>>> SIsigI = 0.5*(sigma1 + sqrt(sigma2^2 + 4*sigma12^2)/Press
>>>> SIsigII = 0.5*(sigma1 - sqrt(sigma2^2 + 4*sigma12^2)/Press
>>>>
>>>> Press = max(1.e-13,Pstar * HEFF *exp( -20*(1-AREA)));
>>>>
>>>> see seaice_do_diags.F (and seaice_dynsolver.F)
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I am also a little concerned that the LSR and EVP solutions  
>>>>>> look  so different
>>>>>> in the ice-covered area, can that be attributed to that  
>>>>>> different  boundary
>>>>>> conditons? Can you try a run with no slip for the evp solver?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is LSR no slip by default?  How do you specify no slip for evp  
>>>>> solver?
>>>>
>>>> LSR is half slip and that's hardwired. I didn't want to bother  
>>>> this  the boundary conditions if EVP works, because it's so much  
>>>> simpler to  do that in EVP. But now I may have to reconsider  
>>>> this decision.
>>>> EVP is free slip by default. SEAICE_no_slip = .true. makes it no  
>>>> slip.
>>>>
>>>> Martin
>>>>
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>>>
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