[MITgcm-support] RBCS

[Stephanie Dutkiewicz]

Dmitri -
Yes, you do need a mask set in "relaxBoundaryFile" -
by default this is zero: so no relaxing is done. If you
want to relax everywhere with timescale 864000., then
you will need a 3-D field with 1 everywhere.

steph


On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Dmitri Leonov wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to use temperature as an age tracer using RBCS. I need it to relax 
> everywhere from Tref to zero. Do I need to specify the mask?
>
> It stays at Tref during the integration. (tempStepping is set to .TRUE.) I'm 
> wondering if anything is missing. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Dmitri
>
> My data.rbcs looks like this:
> &RBCS_PARM01
> tauRelax = 864000.,
> relaxBoundaryFile = '',
> rbcsIniter = 0,
> rbcsForcingPeriod = 0.,
> useRBCtemp = .TRUE.,
> useRBCsalt = .FALSE.,
> useRBCptracers = .FALSE.,
> &
>
>
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