[MITgcm-support] ptracer surface boundary condition

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Hi Samar,

Generally, I put a strong restoring (short time-scale) and
this works for me.

Jean-Michel

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:46:59PM -0400, samar khatiwala wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I would like to perform some ptracer simulations in which the
> ptracer concentration is prescribed at the surface. This could
> be a time-dependent boundary condition. Unfortunately, I don't
> see any simple way to use existing code to prescribe such a BC.
> Simply setting pTracer(...,k=1,..)=BC does not work all that well.
> To make this work robustly (and consistent with the time stepping) I have
> to intervene at multiple locations in the code to (re)set pTracer and gPtr
> to the BC.
> 
> I was wondering if someone has figured out how to do this in a cleaner
> and more consistent manner. Perhaps this could be incorporated into the
> gchem package since it seems like a useful capability to have.
> 
> Thanks
> Samar
> 
> 
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