[Mitgcm-support] Re: Unrealistic high W velocities

[mitgcm-support at dev.mitgcm.org]

ooops! forgot to set

nonHydrostatic=.TRUE.

in the data file. Now it looks much better. False alarm.

Göran
>
> I try to run some laboratory experiment and use the model without the
> hydrostatic approximation (I also use the phi_hyd calculation code,
however,
> I am not sure what this means).
>
> Anyway, I often encounter W velocities that are a factor 10-100 larger
than
> the horizontal velocities (the high W velocities are found in a very thin
> region). As far as I can tell this is totally unrealistic and I am
somewhat
> worried about the results. Can it be that I use a deltaTmom that is much
> smaller than deltaTtracer and deltaTClock?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Göran
>
>