[MITgcm-devel] (not so) funny things happen in seaice_lsr and pickups

Jinlun Zhang zhang at apl.washington.edu
Wed Mar 4 13:49:26 EST 2009


Dimitris,
It should not be used even for open water. If it is used, it would 
create all sorts of trouble for both ice and ocean, particularly some 
artificial discontinuity in the ocean.
Jinlun

Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:
> Jinlun, will this also work over open water?
> Do we need to do something special there?
> I was under impression that the velocity cap was
> mostly meant to avoid large velocities
> for really thin ice, i.e., open water.
> Dimitris
>
> On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Jinlun Zhang wrote:
>
>> The ice velocities capped at 40cm/s should be taken out from the code.
>
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