[MITgcm-devel] pickups

[Martin Losch]

Hi Jean-Michel and others,

on our Cray CS400 ollie, but also elsewhere without the throrough experimenation, we experience the following issue with pickup files. Yuqing has carried out the following experiment with the 4km Arctic configuration (e.g. Gunnar Spreen et al 2017): She ran two model simulations where one uses a pickup frequency of 3 days, i.e. it stops every 3 days and restarts, and the other one uses one of 10 days. If the pickups were perfect these two runs should be the same. Bottom line, they are not, please find attached some time series plots based on daily averages illustrating this:

fig 1: RMS difference between 3 day and 10 day pchk of sea ice/ surface ocean diagnostics in Jan 2001.

fig 2: RMS difference between 3 day and 10 day pchk of sea ice/ surface ocean diagnostics for the full year of 2001

fig 3: Mean difference between 3 day and 10 day pchk of sea ice and ocean diagnostics in Jan 2001

So apparantly the two runs diverge until they seem to reach some kind of “steady state” of RMS differences. An RMS difference of 2cm for EtaN is not small, I believe. In this configuration, (which uses seaice, kpp, cal/exf, obcs, salt_plume and exch2), we don’t do anything fancy or experimental.

Have you seen something like this before?

Martin



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