[MITgcm-devel] ICE workshop - recap and homework!

[Martin Losch]

Hong, 

just for the record, I check again, and I think that in my runs the EXF_LWDOWN_WITH_EMISSIVITY is always used, so that my difference in ice thickness is not related to that flag.

Martin

On Apr 10, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Martin Losch wrote:

> Hi Hong,
> 
> this is something I introduced. It really should be the default, because without this flag, you will not be able to get a consistent long wave radiation budget. See this thread:
> <http://mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-devel/2011-December/005079.html>
> especially:
> <http://mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-devel/2011-December/005080.html>
> I am not surprised that it leads to different ice thicknesses, because the flag changes the radiation budget. You might be able to recover somethings similar as before with setting the ice_emissivity=0.97 in data.exf. Now you use the default, which is 0.95
> 
> 
> Martin