[Mitgcm-support] Re: W field

[mitgcm-support at dev.mitgcm.org]

Hi Tony,

>   Dimitris noticed
> that, in do_time_average subroutine
> (for any code before c34 I believe), the 10-day average of wvel are
> different from that of uvel and vvel.  It appears
> that they the wvel is offset from the uvel and vvel by half a time
> step.  That might be the cause of the divergence
> I found.    I just want to confirm with you that for any code before
> c34, Wave is offset from Uave and Vave.          

This is true. It has been fixed recently (10-07-2002) and 
checkpoint46n_post and later produce consistent uVel,vVel,wVel_tave 
output.

Jean-Michel