[MITgcm-support] [Fwd: obcs/exf interactions ]

[Ed Hill]

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> From: Alistair Adcroft <Alistair.Adcroft at noaa.gov>
> To: mitgcm-support at mitgcm.org
> Cc: Tom Haine <Thomas.Haine at jhu.edu>
> Subject: obcs/exf interactions
> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:01:52 -0400
> 
> I've mostly sorted out this upgrade of Tom's experiment from 
> ecco_c50_e29 to HEAD. The last problem has me puzzled - the attached 
> figure is of (U,V) and the difference between the two versions of the 
> model after just two steps using the same forcing/parameters.
> 
> The straight line is hard to see in the original fields and I can't 
> decide whether it comes from Tom's older code or is in the new model. 
> The line does not line up with tile boundaries (black grid in last 
> panel). The best I can determine is that the difference is something to 
> do with exf prescribing the OBC values. Various permutations of code led 
> me to this conclusion but I do not know which is right; I can only see 
> the line when I do a difference of outputs.
> 
> Anyone else seen a problem like this?
> 
> A.
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