[MITgcm-devel] rename thetaMin and phiMin

Martin Losch Martin.Losch at awi.de
Tue Jan 27 03:29:24 EST 2009


Hi Jean-Michel,

that's a very noble initiative. The theta/phiMin variables were always  
difficult to explain to new-comers.
x/ygOrigin sound good to me. I don't have anything bettern than that.

Martin

On 25 Jan 2009, at 01:08, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am going to rename "thetaMin" & "phiMin" parameters:
>
> I would like to add the option to specify a minimum value
> for each tracer (it could be thetaMin & saltMin) so that
> some advection scheme could be made positive relative to this
> minimum (for example, prather 81 advection scheme).
> Then the present "thetaMin" parameter will become even more confusing.
> phiMin is not much better since we also have plenty of PHI
> in the code (for pressure/geopotential), so better to change it
> also.
>
> I propose "xgOrigin" & "ygOrigin" to replace "thetaMin" & "phiMin".
> Does this sound good ?
>
> Cheers,
> Jean-Michel
>
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