[MITgcm-support] Fw: barotropic flow & sponge layer

[Chris Hill]

Encore un fois. Did anyone reply?

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> Did anyone reply to Pascale?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pascale Bouruet-Aubertot 
> [mailto:Pascale.Bouruet-Aubertot at lodyc.jussieu.fr]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 11:45 AM
> To: support at mitgcm.org
> Subject: barotropic flow & sponge layer
> 
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> Dear MIT support team,
> 
> We began to implement a sponge layer (efficient for the baroclinic 
> velocity component only), so we were wondering about the easiest way 
> to introduce the barotropic flow component to be substracted to the 
> total velocity. Since the routine external_forcing is called for a 
> given klevel the barotropic flow can't be computed there by a vertical

> averaging. That's why we looked for this barotropic component 
> elsewhere in the code. One solution that appeared was to use the 
> barotropic flow tendency computed in mom_vecinv.F.
> 
> Our question is whether this is the best way to do it (we doubt about 
> this) and whether you could indicate us the best way to do it.
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> 
> Pascale
> 
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> Pascale Bouruet-Aubertot
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> ph : 00 33 1 44 27 70 76 fax : 00 33 1 44 27 71 59
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