[MITgcm-devel] seaice_growth_if.F

Tue Sep 21 23:07:59 EDT 2010

Ian, great that you are tooling away on sea ice code.

Regarding your question below, I think you need to separate
freshwater and salt flux when
useRealFreshWaterFlux=.TRUE.,
otherwise you will not get the correct ocean volume change.
I agree that if useRealFreshWaterFlux=.FALSE.,
then it is OK to lump everything in EmPmR.

D.

On Sep 21, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Ian G. Fenty wrote:

> There is no contribution to salt flux because I am using EmPmR alone to 
> make seawater salinity adjustments.  Is using EmPmR alone is no longer 
> considered good form.  If I understand it correctly, the default current 
> seaice_growth.F gives the volume of ice grown or melted to EmPmR (which 
> I read as saying that the ice is fresh)  and separately determines the 
> ice's salt and gives that to saltFlux so that seawater salinity is 
> adjusted properly.  Is there some reason to prefer that method?