[Mitgcm-support] Re: code downloaded

[mitgcm-support at dev.mitgcm.org]

Dear Theo (and others),

 Glad to here you think MITgcm will be useful for
your work.
 
 Sonya Legg at Woods Hole has been working on similar
configurations with MITgcm. She has kindly offered to
send you some pointers on how to configure internal 
tide problems etc.... 

Chris Hill

Theo Gerkema wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir,
> 
> This is to inform you that we (namely Chantal Staquet, LEGI, Grenoble;
> Pascale Bouruet-Aubertot,
> LODYC, Paris; and myself) have gratefully downloaded the mitgcm-code
> from your site.
> We plan to use it for modelling internal tides in the Bay of Biscay (3D
> nonlinear nonhydrostatic,
> ultimately).
> 
> As a starting point I'm taking the internal-wave (reflection at a slope)
> example described
> on your site, and I was wondering whether the boundary conditions have
> been adapted previously to
> include barotropic forcing (for internal-tide generation), specifically
> in obcs_calc.F.
> (On internet I found a paper (by Khatiwala) who added a body force in
> the zonal momentum, which
> requires, I think, digging deeper into  the code).  I would be most
> grateful if you could
> send me any information available on this application of your code.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Theo Gerkema
> LEGI (Laboratoire des Ecoulements Géophysiques et Industriels)
> BP 53
> 38041 Grenoble Cedex France
> 
> tel: 33 (0)4 76 82 50 45
> fax: 33 (0)4 76 82 52 71
> Theo.Gerkema at hmg.inpg.fr
> ~