[MITgcm-support] external forcing

[Patrick Heimbach]

Nicolas,

could you also send monitor output for
exf_ustress, exf_vstress?
That would help to see whether wind speed gets converted
to wind stress ok in bulk formulae.

-Patrick



Also, what does your data.exf look like?

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 17:17 -0500, Nicolas Wienders wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> 
> Since we were talking about external forcing... i am forcing (trying  
> to) an oceanic
> domain with ECMWF ERA 40 winds, using wind speed at 10 meters...
> 
> Everything *seems* to go pretty smoothly....  this files are read  
> correctly:
> 
> (PID.TID 0001.0001) //  
> =======================================================
> (PID.TID 0001.0001) // Begin MONITOR EXF statistics
> (PID.TID 0001.0001) //  
> =======================================================
> .......
> (PID.TID 0001.0001) %MON exf_uwind_max                =    
> 8.0050000000000E-01
> (PID.TID 0001.0001) %MON exf_uwind_min                =   
> -6.9110000000000E-01
> (PID.TID 0001.0001) %MON exf_uwind_mean               =   
> -4.5498591236786E-02
> (PID.TID 0001.0001) %MON exf_uwind_sd                 =    
> 2.7145994322517E-01
> (PID.TID 0001.0001) %MON exf_uwind_del2               =    
> 2.2145358844077E-01
> (PID.TID 0001.0001) %MON exf_vwind_max                =   
> -2.3679000000000E+00
> (PID.TID 0001.0001) %MON exf_vwind_min                =   
> -2.9507000000000E+00
> (PID.TID 0001.0001) %MON exf_vwind_mean               =   
> -2.6318417086058E+00
> (PID.TID 0001.0001) %MON exf_vwind_sd                 =    
> 9.6862200473191E-02
> (PID.TID 0001.0001) %MON exf_vwind_del2               =    
> 9.3616243251826E-02
> 
> 
> But, but, but, absolutely no momentum is transmitted to the water...?  
> I am sure i
> must have done something silly somewhere but can't find what the  
> problem is...
> 
> Thank you.
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