[MITgcm-support] boundary condition on tracer

Baylor Fox-Kemper baylor at MIT.EDU
Thu Mar 31 08:40:40 EST 2005


Hi Joe,
   The model is doubly-reentrant, so the one side of the basin is both 
sides of the basin...
    Cheers,
     -Baylor



On Mar 31, 2005, at 3:25 AM, Joseph LaCasce wrote:

>
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to understand how the boundary conditions are implemented 
> for
> a tracer in the model. Take a square basin with a flat bottom. It 
> looks like---
> in GAD_GRAD_X for instance---that no-heat flux is imposed on one side
> of the basin (the west?). But where is it imposed for the other 
> boundary?
>
> Thanks!
> Joe LaCasce
>
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>       *ENDDO*
>      *ENDDO*
>
>
> -- 
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> Norwegian Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 43 Blindern, 0313 Oslo
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