[MITgcm-support] seaice and surfaceTendencyTice

[Martin Losch]

Dimitris,

that explains everything. I now found where theta is updated in 
growth.F. Thanks for your help.

Martin

On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 04:30  PM, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:

> Martin, we have been discussing best way to proceed for dealing with
> surfaceTendencyTice.  So things are a bit slushy at this time.
>
> The reason for distinction between surfaceTendencyT and
> surfaceTendencyTice is that the later gets added to model temperature
> directly by sea-ice model while the former gets added during time
> stepping.
>
> I did try adding the sea-ice heating term directly to time stepping
> scheme but that caused some ugly oscillations and overshoots because of
> Adam's Bashford scheme.  So for time being the two temperature terms
> need to be separated.
>
> KPP needs to know about net surface fluxes, so it needs to know about
> both terms.  Hope this helps.
>
> D.
>
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