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are identical, except where there is sea-ice, because what
EXF computes over sea-ice is not relevant ; on the contrary
oceTAUX & oceTAUY are precisely what enter the ocean,
wind-stress over ice-free ocean, sea-ice to ocean stress
under sea-ice, and a weighted combination of both over
partially covered grid-cell.

Thanks,
Jean-Michel

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:10:07AM -0700, Hong Zhang wrote:
> Hi JM,
> quick question for you.
> What's the difference between  EXFtaux & oceTAUX in diagnostics?
> available_diagnostics.log shows
> >   166 |EXFtaux |  1 |       |SU      U1|N/m^2           |zonal
> >surface wind stress, >0 increases uVel
> >   167 |EXFtauy |  1 |       |SV      U1|N/m^2
> >|meridional surface wind stress, >0 increases vVel
> and
> >    74 |oceTAUX |  1 |    75 |UU      U1|N/m^2           |zonal
> >surface wind stress, >0 increases uVel
> >    75 |oceTAUY |  1 |    74 |VV      U1|N/m^2
> >|meridional surf. wind stress, >0 increases vVel
> in exf_diagnostics_fill.F, EXFtaux is filled with ustress in
> diags_oceanic_surf_flux.F, oceTAUX filled with fu.
> Are they different? or redundant?
> Could you explain a little more?
> 
> thanks
> hong