[MITgcm-devel] Heat flux diagnostics with pkg/seaice

Matthew Mazloff mmazloff at MIT.EDU
Fri Jun 12 10:38:43 EDT 2009


Hello,

Can I add that it would be very valuable to me to have the components  
valid over ice as well (i.e.   'EXFhs   ',  'EXFhl   ', 'EXFlwnet',  
'EXFswnet')

This would be great!

Thanks
Matt





On Jun 12, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:

> Martin and Dimitris,
>
> We still don't have a diagnostics for the Atmospheric (net) heat flux
> when using seaice (the heat-flux equivalent of SIatmFW for fresh- 
> water,
> or the equivalent of SIflxAtm in thsice pkg).
> Holy was trying the other day to get something meaningful out of
> seaice_growth.F, but I was not able to see why the output was off
> by ~200.W/m2
> Can someone who knows (better than I do) what seaice_growth.F is doing
> add this diagnostics ?
> It seems to me that doing a heat budget, or knowing how much heat
> is put in the model are quiet basic things that we should be able
> to do routinely (without modifying the code with high chance of doing
> it wrong).
>
> Thanks,
> Jean-Michel
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