[MITgcm-devel] ocean_emissivity consistency

[Menemenlis, Dimitris (3248)]

... probably best to add correct treatment of emissivity then change
results accordingly.

Dimitris Menemenlis

On Dec 19, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Martin Losch wrote:

> Of course, with all of this hard coding, I don't think that it is possible to set parmeters so that old results are reproduced. The default for emissivity in seaice is 5.5e-8/5.67e-8 = 0.9700176366...
> but the hard coded values are 0.97.
> 
> Also, there should be (in principle) 3 different emissivities, for water, snow and ice ( and pkg/exf has those). The seaice_solve4temp legacy could accomodate ice and snow emissivities, the development branch only knows one surface type (which has a hard code emissivity of 0.97). I guess Gael and Ian are as naive about all of this as I am (o:
> 
> I think the only way out is to change the code and change the results.
> 
> Alternatively, we could close our eyes on this and not change anything, but it will come back later!
> 
> Opinions please,
> Martin