[MITgcm-support] cubed sphere for Atmospheric models

[chris hill]

Yuan,

 Which atmospheric physics are you are using.

Thanks,

Chris
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 18:02, Yuan Lian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had some problems to make cubed sphere working properly for atmospheric
> models. I can run hs94.cs-32x32x5 without any problems, even
> hs94.cs-64x64x5 will work. I tried to run another atmospheric model which
> works fine with spherical coordinates. However extreme values came out at
> second time step if I use cubed sphere. The resolution I used is 32X32X25.
> 
> I switched spherical coordinates to cubed sphere since I thought cube
> sphere will handle the polar regions better. I am wondering if anyone
> had the same experience. Should the cubed sphere have less numerical
> probelms than spherical coordinates?
> 
> Thanks for all the help!
> 
> -Yuan
> 
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