[MITgcm-devel] Re: [MITgcm-support] obcs_apply_ptracer

[Patrick Heimbach]

Glad to hear you're all holding off on this.
This means, you have tome to get back to the sea-ice manuscript.
;o)
-p.

On Apr 16, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:
> I am holding off modifying seaice_obcs until next week so as not to  
> put crap in CVS and then have to overwrite.
>
> My understanding of the obcs issue is the following (Martin please  
> confirm): the landmask used by pkg/obcs is "different" from the  
> landmask seen by the rest of the code.  Most of the time this does  
> not matter but it "does" matter when one is trying to do a tracer  
> or sea-ice computation where T=S=0 causes trouble.
>
> A second reason for holding off on modifying seaice_obcs is that I  
> have suspicion that something is not quite right with lab_sea/ 
> input.salt_plume
> Ever since I added "StaggerTimeStep=.TRUE.," the output of the  
> verification experiment has become even more (rather than less)  
> sensitive to the platform on which it is integrated.
>
> D.
>
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